How much bandwidth your directories eat up? What are you doing to save BW?

Discussion in 'Directories' started by newbie191, Dec 3, 2011.

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    I am a directory owner and I am concerned the way my directory gets spammed from all corners of the world. Though it is easy to delete spam submissions as I can do it with single click but these spammers eat up lot of bandwidth. There must be a way to save some bandwidth. Cloudflare claims to save bandwidth and make sites faster. I want to know are there any directory owners using this service and saving bandwidth?

    How much bandwidth your directory is using? Are you happy with it? What else you are doing to save bandwidth?

    P.S. my directory is on phpld
     
    newbie191, Dec 3, 2011 IP
  2. elicitservers

    elicitservers Peon

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    Is your directory using gzip compression? You likely could save up on some bandwidth that way if you aren't currently using it.
     
    elicitservers, Dec 3, 2011 IP
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    boblord666 Member

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    Cloudflare appears to work quite well. Static pages are stored all over the place so they load faster and aren't retrieved from the main server. Cloudflare also challenges known spammers with a captcha question before they get to the main site. It is easy to set up, easy to change settings and easy to change back if you are worried about it. All pages stored on other services can be refreshed at any time and there is a development for the times when you may be fiddling with CSS.

    And it's free.
     
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    marki8 Well-Known Member

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    if you using phpld.. there have cache option at admin panel... yes, is good that you use cloudflare to make your site more faster..
     
    marki8, Dec 4, 2011 IP
  5. Hbird64

    Hbird64 Active Member

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    About 150GB a month. Therefor we have 2 dedicated servers running.
    Editors must sign up to submit sites, this stops most spam robots.

    Hugo
     
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    williamsweb Active Member

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    i am using simple shared hostgator hosting
    use paid script with good captcha
     
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    I uses cloudflare as well. It also cut down on the spam submission I used to get.
     
    noel877, Dec 7, 2011 IP
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    syted Notable Member

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    Me too, I know you can block IPs in the phpld script but I'd never bothered, Cloudflare makes it easy to block countries and has dramatically reduced my spam after blocking a handful of countries. One person from a blocked country left an email saying they want access to submit a site but as I've never received a paid submission from that country in 4 years I happily ignored it :)
     
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    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    Use caching and you can think about blocking certain IP blocks where the spammers originate from.
     
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    kamal_ds Well-Known Member

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    I use a paid script and a powerful captcha. These two do things along with gzip compression will allow you to run it on a $30 VPS
     
    kamal_ds, Dec 10, 2011 IP