I agree also - translation here:
"I ran a forum allot bigger than this and a lot more reckless with its bandwidth usage, and bandwidth on forums isnt that much. I was using a much bigger program in vbulletin. Used around 20gig a month, and our plan was 80 gig a month,that was a huge amount of high def images, I'd be surprised if this forum uses 10gig a month of bandwidth and that's a very basic server plan these days.
As much posting that goes on in a forum, they aren't big users of bandwidth to say if you had this sort of traffic in other style social media sites. There is no front page here that has multiple big pictures that would use big bandwidth if everyone was to go there before entering a forum, the biggest bandwidth user for us was the vbadvance front page of vbulletin as it had lots of pictures and everytime someone came to the forum it was loaded, so used allot of bandwidth, this forum doesn't have that, it's simple, so yer only the pictures loaded on the server would use decent bandwidth, but not every single person who logs in here sees those pictures in one hit compared to if it was displayed on the front page.
As strangeways said, the amount of megs held the storage would be the main issue but if 'AP' has a good storage amount (and he said there is), then it should be all fine, but one reason I liked people posting pics onto our server was they are on the page forever and are more of an asset than a hindrance to the website. I'd say this site is very conservative with its bandwidth in other areas to allow posting of pictures and still have plenty of room for the future???
The older the forum gets and the more pictures collected over the years makes them more of a valuable source. The fact you have to log into this forum to view the pictures saves a huge amount of bandwidth, ours you didnt - so people using Google searching for cars could see the pictures meaning they were draining our bandwidth when viewing through Google or on our site just browsing having 200+ guests looking at the site constantly all day uses bandwidth plus the members who were logged in.
This site (AP?) doesnt have that problem being a bit more private and on a good scale. We were a small of some of the car forums but still had huge traffic, but compared to some of the larger ones that have 40000 members and open forums with hundreds of thousands of post and the forum being 15 years old then you would see huge bandwidth issues.
This forum shouldn't have too much (many) issues. nothing worse than visiting a forum finding a thread you like that looks like its going to be helpful that is old but has the photobucket image missing.rahhhhhhhh, plus the fact it made it easier for us to regulate the size of images and content, we had a problem with some dickheads loading up photo bucket images of cars, then a few weeks later their photobucket accounts were hacked and those images where replaced with porn ones of the same file name, meaning our forum had bloody porn through the entire site on all their threads cos. its a case of if you drop a photo bucket link with say a pinball machine with a file name, delete it put a porn picture under the same name where ever that picture was posted the replacement porn picture was planted in its place.
In the end I banned photobucket as it was easy to hack and replace, after spending about 2 weeks going through all our members accounts looking at every single post they made to remove the post that had porn. lol. Even mine was hacked as I thought I had the smart idea of hosting some of the forums front page images on photo bucket to save bandwidth lol, so my front page was porn.
That's where forum rivalry ends up, lol"
