So I sent my host to the website Germi provided to prove to them gzip wasnt working....This was their response...
Hi,
gzip is available on the server, but it's not enabled automatically.
If you want to enable mod_deflate (successor of mod_gzip) you can
review the configuration here:
httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html
Thanks,
Nick Z.
AptHost.com
So I went to
httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html as they said I should do....I might as well have been reading japanese. I emailed them back and asked them to please enable it for me since they are the hosting company that I pay every month.
I'll see what happens and what their response is.
They are usually pretty good about helping out with these sort of things.
Thanks Germi, you rock
James