Baldrick - what were some of the things you did to reduce ba

[hamambocegi]

hi, i have couple of sites with heavy php - mysql usage.

what were some of the things you did, that we can learn from, to reduce bandwith ?

thanks in advance

[Baldrick]

compress the output in php using ob_start("ob_gzhandler&quot(it requires php 4.0.4pl1 or higher and compiled with zlib)

[hamambocegi]

do you need to include ob_gzhandler in your scripts? i thought mod_zlib did the compression already ... i guess i should do some more reading ...

well do you see and change in badwith usage ?

[Baldrick]

maybe it is not necassary if using mod_zlib...i dont know because it was not installed on our server.

the forum bandwitdh dropped from 3-5 GB day to 0.5-1 GB day

[Greg12]

i dunno if it would cut down on bandwith but maybe if u prunned old posts or deleted closed topics instead of leaving them.