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Re: Changes to the site - forced changes

Subject: Re: Changes to the site - forced changes
by Wasmith on 2007/12/12 7:55:54

Yeah... what Chilly said...

In website hosting, the term "bandwidth" is generally used to describe the amount of data that can be transferred to or from the website or server, measured in bytes transferred over a prescribed period of time, usually referred to as "Monthly Data Transfer."

Sites pay for a monthly bandwidth amount, for example 100 gigabytes per month. If visitors to the site download a total greater than 100 gigabytes in one month, the bandwidth limit will have been exceeded.

Duh...

Obviously, since this site is so image intensive, and images = lots of bytes, it is expected that HM's monthly bandwith usage would be rather high. As already mentioned, perhaps the size limits of all contributed images should be lowered.

Another duh...

So I got to wondering about our avatars: perhaps these should all be limited to a set size (width, height, bytes). Maybe we should eliminate all animated GIF's as avatars since these by definition are larger files. I looked at my own avatar, currently an animated TARDIS with a blinking light... it's 31 kb in it's animated form, but would only be 8 if it was simply a static image of the same length and width, a savings of 75%. Not much maybe, but every little bit helps.

Think of it this way -- I recently posted an image of Fairchild. Naturally, I want to see comments. So far there are 4 comments on it. The 4 avatars from the posters add up to 208 kilobytes. If I visit this image 5 times today, each time the server will push these 208 kb to my browser, a total of 1,040 kb for the day just for avatars (not to mention the image itself which I'm not counting here). If 25 regular posters are doing the same kind of thing (checking their images) and have similar comments, then 26,000 kb are being pushed just for checking their images. In a month this would amount to 806,000 kb. A few more visitors, and we are talking a gigabyte for just 25 regular posters. Add the lurkers and it increases the users of the monthly bandwidth pool greatly. Just for avatars.

These figures are estimates -- your actual mileage may vary.

I also found an artcle on the web that might be of some use to the Heromorph web guys (you know who you are)...

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000807.html

Hope you all don't mind my 2 or 3 cent's worth.

-W
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