WW forums & bandwith

Hi,

I recently took a professional hosting solution for my forum www.munsterfans.com .
Unfortunately I was thrown out a few days ago as they told me that the forum was taking all their bandwidth . There is some traffic on it (300 or 400 posts per day), but still I don't understand why a standard forum tool would do that.

A friend of mine who now has the site on his server just told me the same thing ... Is there anything I can do ??? If you go there, you'll see that it is really slow.
I'm on Web Wiz 7.01, would ugrading do any good ?

Thank you for any help ! That's a wonderful tool but I'll have to find a solution as nobody wants to host it anymore.

Ozoyo wrote: Hi, I recently took a professional hosting solution for my forum www.munsterfans.com . Unfortunately I was thrown out a few days ago as they told me that the forum was taking all their bandwidth . There is some traffic on it (300 or 400 posts per day), but still I don't understand why a standard forum tool would do that. A friend of mine who now has the site on his server just told me the same thing ... Is there anything I can do ??? If you go there, you'll see that it is really slow. I'm on Web Wiz 7.01, would ugrading do any good ? Thank you for any help ! That's a wonderful tool but I'll have to find a solution as nobody wants to host it anymore.

It wont be the number of posts per se ... rather the number of "reads". For example.  Imagine Im the most famous writer in the history of mankind and I post 1 message a day ... but the whole world wants to read these posts.  My traffic would be HUGE ... but Im only posting one a day ... in fact it could be a read only forum with only me posting.

Thats an excessive example ... but you should see the implied message.  In addition, ity depends on "what they are downloading", eg it could be your site is graphic intensive, thereby contributing to bandwidth use etc.

Additionally, your site at http://www.munsterfans.com/ is more than just a forum.  Check our WWW Stats and find where most accesses are going.

Edited by thekiwi

Nope ...

I've norrowed it down to the forum, when I cut it off, everything is ok, otherwise the whole site is very slow and with more than 30 active users it is nearly impossible to access.

If I try things like turning off the active users list, would it help ? Have you got other ideas to improve performance ?

I can't find any host with a mutualised hosting solution that want to take my site  .

the Access version does require allot of cpu power + memory. I had my site running on an amd athlon xp 2000, and the forum got slow after 12 mb database size.
upgraded to xp 2600 + nforce 2 with raid. Does a better job, but I still notice system slowdowns (not drastic, but it's there).
Thank god I'm almost done converting my whole site to sql server.

Edited by Badaboem