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What's typical bandwidth use with VBulletin?

Discussion in 'vBulletin' started by mcfox, Nov 6, 2005.

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  1. #1
    What's typical bandwidth use with VBulletin? Roughly.
     
    mcfox, Nov 6, 2005 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    vBulletin doesn't use any bandwidth unless you have visitors (and it will be based on how many visitors you have of course). But as an example, this forum, which has been optimized as much as possible for low bandwidth usage (both at the vBulletin and PHP/Apache level) used 126GB last month.
     
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    Bryan Active Member

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    That's not too bad considering how busy this forum is.

    I think the bigger issue is server load and not bandwidth.
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Yeah, if I didn't take advantage of some things, the forum would probably use closer to 1TB/month.
     
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    Bryan Active Member

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    It makes that much of a difference?

    Any major optimizations you should do for VB? I haven't really looked into it, because my forum is still very small so it's not using a lot of bandwidth right now.
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #6
    The best thing you can do is make sure you are using zlib compression.
     
    digitalpoint, Nov 7, 2005 IP
  7. mcfox

    mcfox Wind Maker

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    I will, thanks. If there's a button for it, I can use it. :cool:

    Hmmm. I hadn't thought about server load. Is vB likely to use more than 10% of server resources on a shared server? Obviously, the number of people using it jas a lot to do with that ...
     
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    I want this theme which is here on DP or atleast similar to this one I tried to find one at VBulletin.org but in vain,.. this theme is fast and yet does not hit on eyes :), nice job Shawn!
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #9
    It's the stock vBulletin "theme"... other than some CSS color changes.
     
    digitalpoint, Nov 8, 2005 IP
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    Thats cool, Im going to make some changes to CSS file too, Hope I will come up with something near good as this one is :)
     
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    I think disk size can be another problem if you are hosting at remote server.
     
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    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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    How much more does zlib compress it than GZIP compression level 1?

    For 'Add No-Cache HTTP Headers' should that be a yes, or no? I got a yes.
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    zlib *is* gzip compression.

    No-Cache headers set to "Yes" is probably the best thing for a forum since it's dynamic.
     
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    Is that in the vBulletin admin control panel?
     
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    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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    Yep, there's an option in there.
     
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    ahh I see, well when I get to installing my vBulletin, I'll surely look out for it! :) Thanks for the help ;)
     
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    Ok, I've got vBulletin installed now, where in the admin CP can I find this zlib compression option?

    Thanks
     
    Skribblez, Nov 12, 2005 IP
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    admincp/options.php?do=options&dogroup=http
     
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    Thanks Nintendo! ;)
     
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    Bandwidth for my forums are boardering around 4 GB per month, but we only started two months ago and bandwidth is soon blooming from 500 MB>1GB>4GB :)
     
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