U should considder using gzip to speed up the transfer of pages and to save bandwidth.

You can save over 80%

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/ is not gzipped

Page Size: 27 K
Size if Gzipped: 4 K
Potential Savings: 85.19%

It's not really needed for people with fast connections but it would surely be a lot better for 56K'ers. It takes the main page 10 seconds to load right now.

I know the CPU load will increase because it has to compress all the pages, but I don't think it will increase too much.

Agreed.

Useful.

thats an idea to do if DZ actually Puts MyBB  1.00 Final on

It can be done now, theres an option in the Admin CP.

Do it do it! This would probably help alot of people on slow connections so I agree....very good idea.

imao they nver had this feature on? there must be a reason

I think it's because the current build RC2 does not have gzip compatibilty, but it can be build in easily with PHP or Apache.

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Originally posted by Ezra
I think it's because the current build RC2 does not have gzip compatibilty, but it can be build in easily with PHP or Apache.

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there's no need for coding

Just insert one line at the top of your header file and voila... all the files that include that file will be gzipped.

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<? ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); ?>

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This board does support gzip, and we used to have it enabled. However, it caused dodgy problems for some viewers, and I'm not sure if those issues were ever solved.

I think surfi or wj disabled it sometime in March or April 2004; I dunno why. Anyway, bandwidth doesn't really matter on this server because it's free.

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Originally posted by WDZ
This board does support gzip, and we used to have it enabled. However, it caused dodgy problems for some viewers, and I'm not sure if those issues were ever solved.

I think surfi or wj disabled it sometime in March or April 2004; I dunno why. Anyway, bandwidth doesn't really matter on this server because it's free.

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It's dial up. It's not like you should expect it to be fast .

for the record im not on dialup

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Originally posted by Animal
thats an idea to do if DZ actually Puts MyBB  1.00 Final on

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Originally posted by lou_habs
They are [I think] installing an upgrade soon [forum latest version] which will have it

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Originally posted by Ezra
Just insert one line at the top of your header file and voila... all the files that include that file will be gzipped.

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Originally posted by WDZ
I think surfi or wj disabled it sometime in March or April 2004; I dunno why.

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A couple of suggestions for those who are having problems when loading the forums:

* Change to a lighter (less images) theme. There are a lot to choose from in your User CP.

* Choose to view less threads and less posts per thread (I know, annoying, but if you really want to save loading time, it might do).

I can't come up with anything else...

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Oh yeah...

* Turn off signature & avatar viewing.

* Turn off image viewing (I think this forum had this option, not sure...).

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Originally posted by ShawnZ

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Originally posted by WDZ
This board does support gzip, and we used to have it enabled. However, it caused dodgy problems for some viewers, and I'm not sure if those issues were ever solved.

I think surfi or wj disabled it sometime in March or April 2004; I dunno why. Anyway, bandwidth doesn't really matter on this server because it's free.

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pfft, for YOU yeah, what about the people on dial up

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