Signature Size - 20k

[larryd]

ok guys i need ur help again..

with this new webhost we are limited to 30gigs of bandwith per month.. thats ALOT of traffic..well guess what.. i just ran the stats program and we hit over 6gigs in 5 days.. thats not good especially over the weekend becuase thats when the site is as its slowest.. so i need to start figuring out a way to get everything to lower the bandwith issues without cutting back on the amount of posts.. signatures are a large part.. sig files add up REALLY fast.. so for now on there is a 20k size limit on signature files.. please modify your signature now when your reading this so i can cut back on the bandwith ASAP..

Thanks
Larry D

[2001SilverGTS]

Coo... Test

[gt2000quebec]

test
ok 10 152 octets :cool:

[autxr]

How about *no* sigs. Or text sigs only. Even better, text sigs that are limited to 3 lines or less.

Scott

[00CericaRuss]

umm. just don't host sigs.... they should reside on a server of the user, thuswise it will not be part of your bandwidth

[CelicaShocker]

hmm, check...

[vodox]

testestest

[BoyRacer]

well my shiznit dont work, i guess i got to modify

[pokgai]

Originally posted by 00CericaRuss
umm. just don't host sigs.... they should reside on a server of the user, thuswise it will not be part of your bandwidth

ahh yes that is true... ive been doing that all along, so it shouldnt be a problem?

[coOOlcelica]

test..........

oh man i guess i have to modify it dammit!!!!

[Da Kine Guy]

Yup, as long as your sigs reside on a server other than newcelica.org it won't eat up the bandwidth of the site. Guess that means its time for some guys to sign up on geocities or yahoo and what-not to outsource their sigs.

[cftofu]

cool. so i suppose hosting from imagestation is a-ok

[00CericaRuss]

another thing i suggest to save on bandwidth would be to disable file uploads... every upload and every view counts..

[billybrun]

Done. Just want to add that these test are not helping so.....:doh:

[CSULB_fLiP]

done. 15k

[larryd]

Originally posted by 00CericaRuss
umm. just don't host sigs.... they should reside on a server of the user, thuswise it will not be part of your bandwidth

r u sure about that?? if thats the truth then can u think of a reason we are hitting 6gigs of traffic that fast?

[TheXerox]

Yeah.. they have a point. There's no reason to come down on the sigs unless you are hosting them, which is a bad idea in itself..

[larryd]

well im not hosting them but i thought since the traffic was being pulled through the site it would count against me.. i wish i could fiugre it out..

[TheXerox]

Here is my sig html off the source of this webpage:

img src="http://www.erols.com/bholder/sig.jpg" border="0" alt=""

The actual picture is being sent from erols.com, but being displayed on your webpage, no bandwidth from the sig is coming through your server.

With such a big site like yours larry, I would be always looking at my logs to catch other sites linking to files on my server. People are always stealing the pics and video's on my website.. so I go in there and rename the pics and change the links when it gets too out of control.

[larryd]

hmm.. that makes sense.. guess ill have to look more in depth to that stats

[00CericaRuss]

plus the size of the ads might make a difference... avatars, picture gallery, etc, etc..

I'm positive that if it's not on your server, it will not count for your bandwidth (except for the html pointing to a sig of course)

another thing that could be done would be to possibly have things more text based like the buttons up top and whatnot..

[larryd]

well see what im trying to figure out is I know of other sites runing same forum with bout same activity and members and they have no bandwith issues at all..

[Da Kine Guy]

you on a shared server? maybe your bandwidth's being sucked from another site on the server

[larryd]

yes i am on a shared server but the bandwith stats i see are only coming from my site

[KevinO]

maybe try disabling sigs for a day and check you stats? That could eliminate any concerns.

[MaasNeotek]

Originally posted by coOOlcelica
test..........

oh man i guess i have to modify it dammit!!!!

Yep... you'll have to get a picture of a real celi - not an HPI RC car. :)

And since when did NC.org host the sigs? I thought everyone hosted their own! Arrgh... now that's bandwidth suckin. :)

I will have to check my logs since all you guys are hoggin my bandwidth for my sig now. :)