Bandwidth

[Xakep_INC]

Which forum uses less bandwidth?

VB
InvisionBoard
or phpBB?

I really need to know the facts.

[filburt1]

There's no solid answer. It depends on what style set you use, how many posts per page/threads per page you show, forums you have, avatars, attachments, etc.

vB allows you to use gzip compression which reduces, in many cases drastically, the outputted HTML filesize. I don't know if the other packages offer that off-hand.

[Dan]

I would say vb.... only because phpbb killed my server in bandwidth once

[Erwin]

That's an impossible question to answer unfortunately, for the reasons that filburt said.

[Xenon]

Gzip can be used on vb, too

[Erwin]

You can choose Gzip compression and use CSS with vBulletin too.