Re: Need high bandwidth provider for my Asian community site

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 <andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk> 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" <sandeep_wde@yahoo.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > 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 <sandeep_wde@yahoo.com> 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: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > 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: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > __________________________________________________ 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