Bandwidth savings!

[SpeedJunkyz]

How do I save Bandwidth without robbing my users of their amenities?

I want to have a fun and fulfilling board, but yet I don't want to use alot of BW.

Im a new forum and barely have any real traffic and yet I am already at 200 bandwidth.

ANyone with any ideas?

SJ

[cheat-master30]

200 what exactly? Megabytes? Gigabytes? Terrabytes?

Just out of total curiosity. Of course, if your board is offering either downloadable videos, an arcade or a gallery, it will be difficult to reduce bandwidth to a tiny amount because of obvious reasons.

[SpeedJunkyz]

Megabytes it is

how do I disable the abillity to upload attachments?

SJ

[dismas]

Usergroup permissions.

[cheat-master30]

Megabytes it is

how do I disable the abillity to upload attachments?

SJ

And how new is your forum? It may also be because of you having a graphics heavy style or something.

Note 1: I wouldn't really panic unless you have a host offering something like 2GB of bandwidth. I have that in about two days, so if you got that in a week/month/year, then that's pretty good in my opinion.

Note 2: What exactly is the site in question?

Note 3: You use usergroup permissions to disable/allow attachment uploading ability.

[nyunyu]

200MB isnt critical enough to get me to capped the bandwidth...unless Im on shared host with 100MB storage/1000MB bandwith..
rather than disabling the function, it is better to limit the size of the attachment.

[SpeedJunkyz]

<a href="http://www.speedjunkyz.info/forums" target="_blank">www.speedjunkyz.info/forums</a>

Do forums normally disable the attachment funstion?

[skippybosco]

bummer, we did not help him fast enough apparently...

Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

[SpeedJunkyz]

:(heeeelp meeee, im melting.....

[Awjvail]

May I suggest you get a better host? You can get a lot more bandwidth than 200mb for cheap..

200mb isn't a lot at all. I have a semi small board and I use 25gb a month.

[C.ooder]

Delete some Floders

[SpeedJunkyz]

OK do you mean folders? Well it is back now and it now has 400, my host added more YAAY!

400mb that is......... he did it for free.....

SJ

[Hossie]

Under "Cookies and HTTP-headers" you can choose to compress your ouput. This will also save bandwidth, but increase cpu load.

[petteyg359]

I'm betting you're using a free host. Any paid host worth using gives much more than that. I would suggest finding a better host. I get 3 TiB / month for less than $7 / month.

[gezgas]

wow 6 dollar for 50 mb/500 mb bandwidth.

[SpeedJunkyz]

OK I will see what I can do

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He said he can add more when its needed......so with that said I think I will stay here(its free) and see what happens


SJ