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sr_erick
Senior Member
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 Posted - 07 February 2004 : 14:14:20
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Ok guys. Just asking some questions. This past january I used opprox. 50 gigs of transfer and the sister site, (polarisfiles.com) use approx. 30 gigs. What would be the best way for me to save bandwidth? I was thinking to impliment some CSS in default.asp, forum.asp, topic.asp, and all those other frequently visited files. Is there any other way I could optomize the files? I need to prepare for next season as the trend has been a doubling or tripling in traffic each season since I started the site. Anyone got any ideas? I sure don't have a problem implimenting CSS for fonts, etc.. is there anything else I can CSS?
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Erick
Snowmobile Fanatics
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zeth
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United Kingdom
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
1318 Posts |
Posted - 07 February 2004 : 14:31:49
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Yea, I did know about that. I don't know if I want to go that route, or do it myself, or what I want to do. Confusing 
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Erick
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weeweeslap
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 07 February 2004 : 14:39:32
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| keep in mind that your site is heavily modded and I don't think you'd want to go through that much modding, maybe best route to self mod it |
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zeth
Junior Member
United Kingdom
117 Posts |
Posted - 07 February 2004 : 15:08:30
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I think if you really want to CSS it properly then it requires so much modification (to almost every file) then it is quicker to use Speedball and then adds the Mods.
I did have versions of all the major MODS done for Speedball but now D3mon made version 2. If you give everyone a week then you might find that a lot of MODs are done already. |
THEOLOGY.ME.UK CROSSRING.COM |
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
1318 Posts |
Posted - 07 February 2004 : 15:17:53
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| Well I did a little test. By just replacing the default page with speedball version and implimenting the CSS include file i managed to save about 50 k. I think when it's all said and done I could save quite a bit of transfer. I do have compression enabled on the server so the file sizes of the html would be around 9-10 k for default page and then about 17-30 k in graphics. |
Erick
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D3mon
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 February 2004 : 15:50:04
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| Imagine if you did that with all the pages, especially the Active Topics page, which your readers could set to refresh every minute, all day! |
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D3mon
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United Kingdom
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 07 February 2004 : 18:32:24
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I do have compression enabled on the server so the file sizes
Be aware this can sometimes produce the opposite effect .. there are issues experienced sometimes with compression that cause pages not to refresh properly, and the user has to force refresh them to display properly .. in effect probably using more bandwidth than the compressions saving. |
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DavidRhodes
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 February 2004 : 18:33:10
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| 40% is excellent, I am currently using in excess of 100Gb per month!! but I have so mant mods that I don't want to start over with Speedball |
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
1318 Posts |
Posted - 07 February 2004 : 19:12:08
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Originally posted by Gremlin
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I do have compression enabled on the server so the file sizes
Be aware this can sometimes produce the opposite effect .. there are issues experienced sometimes with compression that cause pages not to refresh properly, and the user has to force refresh them to display properly .. in effect probably using more bandwidth than the compressions saving.
I have already seen the effects of this but fixed it long ago...
Response.CacheControl="private, max-age=0"
This works real well, I have absolutly no problems.
David, your bandwidth consumption seems a little out of line, alomst too high for the amount of posts and users I see you have at your boards. Do you host a lot of videos? |
Erick
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zeth
Junior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 February 2004 : 19:36:52
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Originally posted by DavidRhodes
40% is excellent, I am currently using in excess of 100Gb per month!! but I have so mant mods that I don't want to start over with Speedball
Just throw it in with a site redesign, and keep good records of what MODs you use and other DIY changes.
I keep a text file of what MODs I use etc, simple but really helps I find.  |
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DavidRhodes
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 07 February 2004 : 19:42:45
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| sr_erick, used to have the gallery mod which was abused (ie lots of external hosting) |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 07 February 2004 : 20:18:48
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| Actually with cache control and other such things in there I've *still* seen problems with caching with compression switched on sr_erick you can get IIS to automatically put the cache control headers in there for you, didn't make any difference for us either hard coding them or using IIS to insert them. |
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 07 February 2004 : 21:40:50
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| Well I haven't had any problems. None of my users ever have to refresh pages. |
Erick
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redbrad0
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - 08 February 2004 : 12:12:31
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If I was you, I would start to CSS what you have. I would make a backup like
default.asp_original
default.asp_css
default.asp_speedball
This way you can save your current one as the original incase you might ever need to go back to it. Then save the CSS one that works because it could be easier to use instead of the speedball file which you would then remove all the extra spaces that are not used. |
Brad
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