Phil RULZ

[randycw]

The Other Phil aka Phil, just wanted to thank you for all the work you are putting in and the cash you are fronting for our team. :D

You are doing fine work!:D :cool:

[phil]

It is my pleasure. There are so many great ppl here and they give so much of their time. I feel this is a good way to give back to you.

[Medic193]

Michael has a paypal donate button at the skz site. I don't know how everyone else would feel about this, but with the money that you have spent and the time you have donated, I would be happy to send a bit your way.:)

[phil]

Thanks medic, that is a nice thought but I am not doing this for any personal gain. Sure, it is costing me but at the moment it is not an un-reasonable amount. If the team keeps growing at the rate it has over the last few days, I will have to look at an alternative home for the forums where monthly bandwidth issues will not be a problem. I am limited here to 1500Mb per month traffic and anything higher I will have to pay. I can increase my bandwidth at a cost of $10 per 1000Mb. As I have said in a previous post, I was expecting the first month to be very high as the forum has had to be uploaded and setup and the website has to be uploaded etc. I will give it a couple of months before I decide if I need to move the forum or not. On a side note, I have found a way to compress the forum pages to save on bandwidth. This is at a slight performance overhead, but I think it will be worth it.

[Hemi]

mod_gzip for Apache? :D

[phil]

Originally posted by Hemi
mod_gzip for Apache? :D


I am not sure - I have had the zlib library installed for PHP to allow gzipped pages as the forum is pretty much 100% PHP. We will see in the next few days if it has worked :)

[Chas]

Originally posted by phil
If the team keeps growing at the rate it has over the last few days, I will have to look at an alternative home for the forums where monthly bandwidth issues will not be a problem. I am limited here to 1500Mb per month traffic and anything higher I will have to pay. I can increase my bandwidth at a cost of $10 per 1000Mb. As I have said in a previous post, I was expecting the first month to be very high as the forum has had to be uploaded and setup and the website has to be uploaded etc. I will give it a couple of months before I decide if I need to move the forum or not. On a side note, I have found a way to compress the forum pages to save on bandwidth. This is at a slight performance overhead, but I think it will be worth it.

Have noticed a deterioration of the site tonight (words being fuzzy breaking up) is this cause of the above?

[phil]

It shouldn't be Chas....try cleaning your specs :D - Seriously though, this is a non lossy compression so no image quality is lost. The pages are .gzipped up for transmission to your machine and then your machine will unzip them on the fly before displaying them.

[Chas]

Its o.k mate not your fault i have just checked other sites and its the same :(

Must be a problem with my cable modem connection tonight loss of power somewhere?My bloody sons been playing around here again just found he has altered the font size to small and with my aging eyes that is a no no