Can anybody recommend a good bulletin board?

[AlabamaMan]

Our board over http://www.forum.idealistshaven.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi eat over 100GB/month. I was wonder if theres any other bulletin board out there that uses less bandwidth.

[therude00]

I don't know about the bandwidth they use but try Ikonboard (http://ikonboard.com) and YaBB (http://yabb.xnull.com/)

[Bruce]

Running vBulletin with mod gzip enabled could cut down on data transfer/

[AlabamaMan]

Thanks guys for helping
Frozen can you be more specific? We can afford Vbulletin but whats mod gzip?

[Gayowulf]

If you can afford vB, make a point of getting it.

I think mod gzip is a type of compression. I oculd be completely wrong though

[Hoth]

Yes, gzip compresses pages on the server and sends them in compressed form. (OpenBB has a gzip option also.) Since they're smaller than uncompressed pages, of course they take up less bandwidth. Only problem is the load on the server is a little higher, so you have to make sure your host allows it. (Very likely if it's a host that allows 100 GB/month they'll also allow gzip though.)

[conkermaniac]

I wouldn't use YaBB because it is a resource hog, just like UBB. Ikonboard is the better choice.

[gyrbo]

Generally, Perl boards are slower. PHP and MySQL is less resourcefull (if it isn't run as CGI).

[AlabamaMan]

do i have to download gzip?

[niv]

Originally posted by AlabamaMan
do i have to download gzip?
No:

mod_gzip is installed under apache. GZip is the compression also seen in GZip TAR files under Linux.

[Blank Verse]

Does anyone know if Peo is using GZip on this board?

[AlabamaMan]

Originally posted by Hayama-kun

No:

mod_gzip is installed under apache. GZip is the compression also seen in GZip TAR files under Linux.


Forgive me for being ignorant, do I have to download mod-gzip ?

[niv]

It's an apache mod. If you don't have it, it won't work. If you don't have it, you can get it at http://httpd.apache.org/