Posted: 4/1/2007 12:50 AM
Post subject: Forum Speed Boost
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Andy_Olivera
Joined: 3/1/2005
Posts: 46
Wow, the forum sure runs faster in the middle of the night(Pacific Time).:-) I was thinking, Bisqwit, you could probably increase overall speed and reduce bandwidth usage considerably by cutting the number of topics per page in half. I think 50 might be overkill. :-) Just a thought...
Posted: 4/1/2007 1:41 AM
Post subject: Re: Forum Speed Boost
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Bisqwit
Editor, Active player (296)
Joined: 3/8/2004
Posts: 7469
Location: Arzareth
The forums don't particularly crowd the traffic nor clog the server. It's large file transfers that do. At the moment of this posting (and around 20 hours before and after), I'm transferring backups to an offsite computer. That kind of activity saturates the upload band, increasing latencies.
Posted: 4/2/2007 10:49 AM
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Andy_Olivera
Joined: 3/1/2005
Posts: 46
Ah, that explains it. I would've thought the forums made up a good portion of the site's traffic(it would save about 30KB per topic page). Okay, I'll go back to being invisible now. -)
Posted: 4/2/2007 1:45 PM
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DeHackEd
Emulator Coder, Site Developer, Former player
Joined: 11/6/2004
Posts: 833
The HTTP protocol supports encodings, specifically compression. gzip compression should be enabled so the pages are compressed during transfer. A 25K page can probably be crushed down to 8 KB pretty easily.. ... but I just did a benchmark and it doesn't seem to be working?