Would a CGI based forum such as ikonboard and vbulletin use up more bandwidth than say xmbforum or phpbb?

Im confused:confused:

Perl is generally slower than php. So I would suggest a PHP based forum with a mysql backend.
There are many good ones.
Have a great day :)

regards
amar

First, vbulletin isn't cgi-based, UBB is. vBulletin has built in compression and as far as I know, UBB doesn't. Therefore, vBulletin has the potential to use up less bandwidth (unless the host is running mod_gzip, then the consumption should be the same). The fact that one is CGI and one is PHP shouldn't matter as far as bandwidth goes.