You need to disclose more background information like the server platform, OS version/flavour/distribution, how do you install and configure Apache (modules), etc.
If the issue is performance related, the correct forum is "Hardware and performance" https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=596. When you start a new discussion, you'll see the full initial pointers.
Sorry for the delay in getting this posted.
The servers are Ubuntu 14.04.3 and the install is exclusively from .deb style packages.
These servers run Puppet for management of configs, autodeployment, etc.
We've changed the chdir in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
We've changed some of the php directives in /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
But sometimes when trying to do a course backup and all times when trying to do a course restore we get the following:
Content Encoding Error
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.