[Ronin Storm]

Originally Posted by rogersnm

I'll just say that i have an average of 8% server load and i have the shoutbox running my host doesn't havea porblem

Have you checked the overall bandwidth usage of the shoutbox versus, say, anything else on vbulletin? I have a memory that it's something like two magnitudes difference. My site has recently changed hardware (I run on a dedicated server) and with the change I no longer have access to my webstats... when I have them again I'll post what I see.

Originally Posted by thisgeek

The only thing I've done differently is to change the ' symbol to " &_#39;" (added an underscore cuz the post converts it to an apostrophe)

It shouldn't matter what the translation is. I use the entity reference because they are effectively equivalent. However I could just as easily used "a89fysfh" or some other random collection of characters as long as I'm pretty sure they're a unique string. The changes I've made convert to the entity on storage but convert it back to an apostrophe for display.

Originally Posted by thisgeek

because I read somewhere that ' may not work in IE.

I have never had issues with ' as an entity reference. It's one of the more basic ones. XHTML, under some circumstances, appears to have trouble with certain entity references it doesn't recognise (&nbsp but then I just use the unicode for those ones ( );

Edit: Realised I'd not responded to everyone I wanted to.