Comments on: How To Minimize Bandwidth Usage http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/how-to-minimize-bandwidth-usage/ Velvet Blues offers a wide variety of website-related services such as: complete websites, eCommerce, design, XHTML/CSS slicing, search engine optimization, and content management with custom or open source software such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. Take a look at our portfolio and see for yourself. Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:15:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tim Hodgeshttp://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/how-to-minimize-bandwidth-usage/#comment-5159 Tim Hodges Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:50:40 +0000 http://www.velvetblues.com/?p=222#comment-5159 We did the opposite of step 4 as programmers kept emailing my boss saying our site was out of date because it still used html files. I have to say having dynamically generated info from a database using classic ASP takes about 5 times longer then a static HTML files. The extra calls to the database really slowed down our entire website.Another step we found that helped was moving the images to another shared hosting server. This reduces the bandwidth on your database server. We did the opposite of step 4 as programmers kept emailing my boss saying our site was out of date because it still used html files. I have to say having dynamically generated info from a database using classic ASP takes about 5 times longer then a static HTML files. The extra calls to the database really slowed down our entire website.

Another step we found that helped was moving the images to another shared hosting server. This reduces the bandwidth on your database server.

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