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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[url=http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/]Coding Horror[/url]: [url=http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000807.html]Reducing Your Website's Bandwidth Usage[/url] Jeff Atwood goes into some ways to, well, reduce a website's bandwidth usage: 1. Switch to an external image provider. 2. Turn on HTTP compression. 3. Outsource Your RSS feeds. 4. Optimize the size of your JavaScript and CSS He says something I find very profound in part one: [i]"Even though this ends up costing me $25/year, it's still an incredible bargain. I am offloading 90% of my site's bandwidth usage to an external host [By hosting images externally] for a measly 2 dollars a month."[/i] This seems like Aslyum candy- enjoy. Loading...
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