Comments on: save 300 terabytes in a few days http://www.helge.at/2004/07/save-300-terabytes-in-a-few-days/ Helge Fahrnberger's rants and raves on social software, life, and everything Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: thomas http://www.helge.at/2004/07/save-300-terabytes-in-a-few-days/comment-page-1/#comment-69 thomas Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://helgeat.dreamhosters.com/wp/?p=97#comment-69 very encouraging news!<br /> <br /> nevertheless the point with bandwith reduction to me is ambivalent. the point is clear, and i won't argue against reducing filesize by using contemporary site-design.<br /> but i doubt that bandwith can be an argument, capacities are growing steadily, more and more users have broadband (ain't it time for the revival of multimedia content on the web?)...<br /> <br /> besides this there will be relatively few pages where traffic is so high that costs have to be cut down on this issue (gmx certainly one of those sites). i see the good efforts in standard-design in all weblog-software, but do larger cms already get the point (out of the box)?<br /> and do web-agencies building semi-dynamic pages for small companies already build pages for the 21st century? very encouraging news!

nevertheless the point with bandwith reduction to me is ambivalent. the point is clear, and i won’t argue against reducing filesize by using contemporary site-design.
but i doubt that bandwith can be an argument, capacities are growing steadily, more and more users have broadband (ain’t it time for the revival of multimedia content on the web?)…

besides this there will be relatively few pages where traffic is so high that costs have to be cut down on this issue (gmx certainly one of those sites). i see the good efforts in standard-design in all weblog-software, but do larger cms already get the point (out of the box)?
and do web-agencies building semi-dynamic pages for small companies already build pages for the 21st century?

]]> By: helge http://www.helge.at/2004/07/save-300-terabytes-in-a-few-days/comment-page-1/#comment-70 helge Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://helgeat.dreamhosters.com/wp/?p=97#comment-70 @thomas: i totally agree with you that there is much more to webstandards and modern, accessible webdesign than just bandwidth reduction. i just wanted to light up the wellknown topic from a different angle. however, i don't agree that growing capacities make the bandwidth issue irrelevant. ideal usability needs instant loading times (< 1 sec) and we are very far from that: microsoft.com takes 3.5 seconds to load on my broadband connection. @thomas: i totally agree with you that there is much more to webstandards and modern, accessible webdesign than just bandwidth reduction. i just wanted to light up the wellknown topic from a different angle. however, i don’t agree that growing capacities make the bandwidth issue irrelevant. ideal usability needs instant loading times (< 1 sec) and we are very far from that: microsoft.com takes 3.5 seconds to load on my broadband connection.

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