OMG!!!! I just got my mid month stats on bandwidth!!!!

I used to run VBB, and used about 10-13GB for a total month of traffic.

I changed to UBB and now its gone upto 15GB mid month, with no extra traffic comming in!!!

Is this normal or is something really DUFF?



[This message was edited by tenshu on 16 Nov 01 at 07:27 PM.]

This is what me Site Stats say for a typical day!

Site Stats:
Day13 :Hits 153823 9.53%, Files 47487 9.19%, Cached 63359 8.87%, Pageviews 12170 8.70%, Sessions 1363 7.57%, KB Sent 983815

UBB stats:
Page views this month (11/2001): 325290, 186263 (57.26%) from the UBB Accelerator

Why is my bandwidth usage so high??

I like UBB and would like to stay with it.
How can I cut down the bandwidth.

hmmmm.. a few things can be done.

• decrease # of threads per page in the forum display
  
• decrease # of replies/posts per page in the threads
  
• turn off "search all forums" to just search one forum at a time
  
• you could replace the php compression with a perl module that compresses all pages, not just those cached.
  

Which brings us to this... do you have a url to your ubbaccel_test.php file? You may not even have compression turned on for your site.

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Hi,

I've done all that apart from the below:

Could you tell me more about "you could replace the php compression with a perl module that compresses all pages, not just those cached."

Thanks

click >>> HERE <<<


Thanks

this is what is not helping..

Your PHP version is 4.04: OK - old, but it should work
Your PHP version has zlib: Yes, but your PHP version is too old to use zlib properly

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that, that could be causing the MASSIVE difference in bandwidth?

[QUOTE]Could you tell me more about "you could replace the php compression with a perl module that compresses all pages, not just those cached."[/QUOTE]This might be an alternative:
http://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=30&t=000049&p=

It might be easier, though, to see if you can upgrade the server to PHP 4.05 or higher, so that PHP/zlib can be used.

but does that amount of bandwidth look correct for the stats???

Does UBB really need that much?

I can't help with analyzing the bandwidth stats.

I wouldn't think there would be that much difference in bandwidth between the different scripts, although there could be a significant difference in server resource utilization (CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc.).

Is it possible you're getting hit by web spiders? Changing your forums to members-only could help.