jtan
11-12-2002, 06:32 AM
can anyone have a rough estimate of bandwidht usage of a forum with 1,000,000 posts per year?
 | View Full Version : estimating bandwidth usage of forums... Darth 11-12-2002, 07:01 AM 1 gig? heh. Depends on the template etc... debug 11-12-2002, 09:04 AM Look at this post: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=50828&highlight=how+much+bandwidth Derek 11-12-2002, 09:09 AM debug, nice link... wouldn't have found that myself. EDIT: Keep in mind that the high bandwidth people may not be utilizing gzip. gzip will reduce your bandwidth greatly depending on it's level of reduction. jtan 11-12-2002, 10:24 AM what's gzip? AceWeb 11-12-2002, 11:04 AM Originally posted by jtan what's gzip? I believe he is talking about mod_gzip. It is an acceleration module for Apache web servers that compresses the files that it is delivering, and that is saveing bandwidth. JeremyV 11-12-2002, 11:13 AM Yep, gzip will cause a slight overhead, but really worth it if you are more constrained by your bandwidth limit. Derek 11-12-2002, 12:10 PM Yes, if you have a 20 gig limit but know you will reach 30, use it at it's highest compression. 9 would be the highest compression on vBulletin. debug 11-12-2002, 04:07 PM The GZIP zips up the content of your website and sent to you visitor. Your visitor browser then unzips and see the content. This process is transparent to your visitors. If you're on a fast connection (Cable, DSL), you probably won't see any difference at all in download times, unless you are viewing very large pages. However, people on dialup modems should see a lot of improvement. gzip pros and cons: pro: - less bandwidth costs - faster loading pages cons: - slightly more cpu usage.. not very noticeable with gzip set to 1. http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=44536&highlight=gzip |