Conisder just using str_replace("\n", "<br>\n", $your_string) instead of
nl2br.
On December 13, 2001 10:10 am, sunny AT wde wrote:
> yeah i'll have a look at making the html a lot smaller as well :) i
> guess thats a cheap way of tryin to hold out on the machine as much
> as possible.
>
> the <br /> unfortunately happens automatically when i use the nl2br
> function before stuff goes into the database. anyway of avoiding
> that?
>
> /sunny
>
> --- Andrew Brampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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
> > > >
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