Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 05:09:01 08/26/04
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On August 26, 2004 at 06:31:00, Andrei Fortuna wrote: >On August 25, 2004 at 18:36:08, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >>Which brings us back to a php or vBulletin type board, where all the responses >>are listed one after the other and there is no need to requote the previous >>poster. > >If you count the additional overhead incured by all the fancy html formatting I >bet you will get higher numbers than actual text-only format that is used at >CCC. > >But come on, I think it's a bit silly to think that replies consume such amount >of bandwidth ! As I said before : when I hosted CCC Search I got around 30 >MB/day max in a busy day IIRC. And here in Romania the bandwidth is very >expensive, but outside I saw offers under $50/month which provide unlimited and >decent bandwidth. > >Andrei > >P.S. Indeed I found an extreme case where someone posted a 600 KB message some >time ago with many many matches analysed by fritz but this is an exception. well images are loaded and cached, they don't add such a big overload. Instead a php bulletin board allows to include a zipped file, so when you want to share a set of games it will save a lot of bandwith
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