Well just looking at the source of your HTML, you could save yourself some bandwidth by shrinking it a bit. For example change the <br /> into <br> place your JavaScript into a .js file remove a lot of the new lines also remove the tabs.
Just doing this I changed the file size of a random forum page from 21090Bytes to 19192Bytes. Thats saved you about 10%. That 2GB a month :) You could shrink it even more by removing the " around attributes in html tags (but that may break some browsers) Also if possible you could get the GZip module installed for apache. This GZips the pages up, sends them, and then your browser automatically ungzips them. This only occurs with browsers that support it. But a quick test changed your 20k file into a 3k file. That even more of an improvement for a little server side processing. (thats 20GB into 3GB :)). But I guess your Host wouldn't like to do this for you unless it was your own dedicated box. Hope these suggestions help you some how Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "sunny AT wde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Need high bandwidth provider for my Asian community site > I also forgot to ask: > > are messageboards really big bandwidth suckers?? I get about 2000 > messages posted a day on my messageboard and I use up nealry 20 gigs > with that. Is this normal? > > My site is - www.barfiCulture.com > > thanks > > sunny > > > --- sunny AT wde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I manage an South-Asian community site from the UK (but hosted in > > USA) which is currently wolfing down 20 GB per month and is > > increasing to about 25 very soon as the popularity grows. > > > > I've searched the mailing lists, but couldn't find a good solution. > > How shall I go about increasing bandwidth? Should I go for a > > dedicated boxes? Or does anyone know a host that provides 25-30 a > > month fairly cheaply (its a non-commercial site). > > > > TIA > > > > sunny > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of > > your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com > > or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of > your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com > or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
