** Must Read ** Explaining STORAGE SPACE and SAVING BANDWIDTH - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

06-01-2003, 06:41 PM

Just a random related something I've noticed...

The file sizes of the pages on this board tend to be a bit bigger than the file sizes of the pages on most other boards I visit, even the ones that are bigger. You can sit there and type out ways for the users to use less bandwidth while viewing the boards until your fingers fall off, but it's not going to help too much in the long run if they're loading these huge files all the time.

Now, this other forum I used to go to a lot used to run a ubb, and they also used to have a lot of monetary & bandwidth problems caused by the masses of people always visiting the site. They actually resorted to shutting down some of their forums to save bandwidth, which made a whole lot of people mad. Then they switched to a vb, and they didn't have bandwidth problems after that, and it was a lot less server-intensive, and the forums as a whole ran a lot better.

Not that I'm saying this sort of thing is a magical cure-all for all the problems, or anything, but you just might want to consider trying to streamline all the html that the forums do produce (css helps a lot so you don't have tons of lengthy font tags all over the place) to cut down on file sizes. It might only amount to being like 1 kb per page, but 1 kb saved per page times all the thousands of pages viewed adds up after a while...

Just some food for thought. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

06-01-2003, 06:41 PM	#19
Ava Guest Posts: n/a	Just a random related something I've noticed... The file sizes of the pages on this board tend to be a bit bigger than the file sizes of the pages on most other boards I visit, even the ones that are bigger. You can sit there and type out ways for the users to use less bandwidth while viewing the boards until your fingers fall off, but it's not going to help too much in the long run if they're loading these huge files all the time. Now, this other forum I used to go to a lot used to run a ubb, and they also used to have a lot of monetary & bandwidth problems caused by the masses of people always visiting the site. They actually resorted to shutting down some of their forums to save bandwidth, which made a whole lot of people mad. Then they switched to a vb, and they didn't have bandwidth problems after that, and it was a lot less server-intensive, and the forums as a whole ran a lot better. Not that I'm saying this sort of thing is a magical cure-all for all the problems, or anything, but you just might want to consider trying to streamline all the html that the forums do produce (css helps a lot so you don't have tons of lengthy font tags all over the place) to cut down on file sizes. It might only amount to being like 1 kb per page, but 1 kb saved per page times all the thousands of pages viewed adds up after a while... Just some food for thought. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]