Quote:
Originally posted by zell12
Wow shutup, I really don't care about your fancy terms or dodangs.
|
Too bad, don't talk about them or come into a thread that can remotely reference them if you don't care about them.
Quote:
Originally posted by zell12
It is a list of members, how much bandwidth could it take up?
|
Quite a bit of bandwidth, database space and server load. Here's some simple math.
Let's say that we have...five hundred active users here. That's really kind of stretching it but it's just an estimate. So, we'll say that the number of active users is
u.
Next, we have the size of the member list in the average vBulletin list size of 10 names per viewing. We'll call that chunk of people
c and say that, as a rough estimate, it's 100kb.
Now, let's say that the average forum user accesses an enabled member list five times a day and looks through five sets of user lists to find whoever they're looking for. So, now we have an equation.
u*5*
c*5.
Which comes out to...
500*5*100*5. But you have to do it in pieces.
So you have roughly 2500 calls for the database right there, which is quite a few in itself.
And each of those calls is 100kb, meaning that right there you've just pushed 250,000kb of data, and then you have to factor in that each user looks through the list 5 times.
The end result is about 1.25gb of bandwidth pushed in any given day and a heck of a lot of strain on the MySQL database.
And of course this is all generalizations and I'm not as acquainted with the kind of bandwidth vBulletin pushes anymore but it just serves to show you how much strain even a small forum like this can put on a webserver.