UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Please help (web hosting costs due to ubb)

Last month, one of my clients hosting costs was approximately $300.00. They're on a $40.00/month, 15gig traffic/month hosting plan with Hostway. Prior to last month the 30/month plan was adequate. I have a couple questions about how UBB works I guess.

The boards are for a band, and are very active, with about 600 members posting all day and all night. In an effort to cut future costs of hosting, we decided to disallow posting of images in posts. This has created a minor repercussion with some users.

My first question, even though an image in a post is hosted on a different server, would the posting of images in a post generate extraneous cgi data that would be affecting costs?

My second question, in terms of settings and what not, any thoughts as to what can be done to cut down the amount of traffic that UBB is generatng?

Thank you for any information you might have.

Allen Ayres wrote a whole article on increasing speed and reducing bandwidth below:

https://ubbdev.com/db/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000018

I think once a image is posted on a forum it then adds to your bandwidth so turning off signatures is a definite I know what some of these music types have as siggys.
Thing is theres no need for a 800 x 600 Signature,

If the images are hosted elsewhere then the browser on the client side is doing the work, the UBB is only serving the text for the browser to use. As far as reducing the traffic generated there are a couple of choices. One would be to utilize the PHP accelerator and the other is to use the UBB compression hack that was in the 6.1 mod forums I believe.

Remember that there are always trade offs and this will increase CPU loads. I have a fantastic suggestion for you though, go to www.ubbhosters.com and check out their plans. Get ahold of Steve Klenert over there (or at www.digitalprinceton.net) and discuss this proplem with him. He is great at setting up plans to fit your needs and will give you a realistic price.

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Images from other servers can not impact bandwidth use locally - they're on other servers!

If you have not done so, enable the UBB Accelerator. It can use PHP's built in compression (if it's enabled) to save bandwidth. Up to 50% of all requests can be fed through the Accelerator, which can cut down the size of each page by up to 75%.

Well, then. Talk about getting sniped!

TheX
You may as well be a rep Im looking into swapping over to them because of you

Thank you all for your replies. I will now look into your information and see what we can do.
Again, thank you very much.