I have Megento site & my site is little slow these day’s (speed), i think lot of load is there on site. so I requested to server then they replied me to remove htaccess file. But htaccess file is important right to redirect, to define rules etc…
Indeed, the .htaccess is responsible for handling the request the way it’s supposed to. Maybe you could speed up your site a little by optimizing the .htaccess file, but most likely not a whole lot.
Magento is notoriously slow though, and from what I understand there’s nothing much you can do to speed it up short from throwing more hardware at it, or installing a cache server like Varnish.