mack
msg:4396392 | 5:15 pm on Dec 10, 2011 (gmt 0) |
One option open to you is to try and minimize the total bandwidth. This depends on the specific site, but by simply cleaning up code you can reduce the page sizes quite considerably.
Ages ago I used a CMS that created static files. It was template driven and bandwidth was indeed getting to be an issue. By simply removing whitespace from the template files I was able to see a bandwidth drop of 20% with traffic levels remaining constant.
The same applies to dynamic sites. If you can reduce the overall file size of a page load you will be able to serve more pages without the huge leap in bandwidth.
Its something well worth taking into consideration.
Mack.
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Hoople
msg:4396405 | 5:32 pm on Dec 10, 2011 (gmt 0) |
+1 to mack's comment.
I was working on speeding up a blog and found a social recommendation widget was making referrals to every site it had a button for. It took *lots* of time to ratchet thru that list and then let the sever go on to serving subsequent content.
I shaved a considerable overhead by changing to a widget that used a common image sprite for the social icons.
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techmaster
msg:4396408 | 5:43 pm on Dec 10, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Make your web pages as simple as you can because formatting and use of graphics will increase the file size and gallop the bandwidth. Or you will have to invest more to increase your bandwidth limits to handle this situation properly.
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damon_cool
msg:4423002 | 8:47 am on Feb 29, 2012 (gmt 0) |
There are a bunch of caching techniques you can use depending on the technology stack you use for your site.
Another alternative is to use a CDN like cloudflare. I have no first hand experience with them specifically. Google CDN and you'll find out more.
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topr8
msg:4423051 | 11:19 am on Feb 29, 2012 (gmt 0) |
it's a pretty open ended question dailypress!
i shouldn't have thought bandwidth was much of an issue with the allowances most hosts give nowadays.
assuming the site is dynamic then optimising the sql queries is the most important thing that you can do. then caching of some sort if you have pages that are complicated to build.
as a reference i've run a 1,000,000 page view a month site on an old westhost VPS which had no problems handling it (although i'm no longer with them)
... then again a mid level dedicated server could choke on less than that if you are running an inefficient cms/forum whatever.
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StoutFiles
msg:4423089 | 1:30 pm on Feb 29, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Bandwidth is hardly an issue. Most shared servers have a maximum connection allowance that is pretty easy to go over on. Of course they never tell you about that when they entice you with their unlimited* bandwidth.
Get a dedicated server and account for 24-48 hours of downtime as you get nameservers switched over. Research how to do a server switch beforehand so you don't encounter any more downtime than necessary.
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