Our problem is the opposite. We have plenty of bandwidth but our CPU usage is too high. At times, a "Top" can creep into double digits, i.e., 10, 11...so I don't think this would be a worthwhile solution for us. Best thing that helped so far was enabling PHP/UBB Accelerator in "unsafe mode" so it takes advantage of that ZLIB compression...
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