Does vBulletin use less bandwidth and storage space than UBB?

[DjSao]

So, if i have two forums one UBB and the other one vBulletin and they have the exact amount of members and posts, which of them would use the most bandwith, and which would use most storage space?

[Chris Schreiber]

As far as bandwidth goes, they both use about the same amount, since the pages are similar. However, it is pretty easy to cut down on bandwidth by modifiying the templates to make them smaller.

As far as disk space goes, the same number of posts in vBulletin will use about 10-20% of the space the same amount of posts will take up in the UBB.

-Chris

[Freddie Bingham]

All of your storage space would be in your mysql database and it would be 1/5 to 1/6th of your UBB in size. As for bandwith, why do you think vBulletin would be any different than UBB? They are both throwing forum lists, thread lists, threads, messages to the browser - they should be about the same. If you want to cut down bandwidth, remove all icons, use text links, and disable smilies.

[chrispadfield]

Wont the space be even less as as well as the data files, UBB makes the .html file for each thread which will take up loads of space.

[Freddie Bingham]

? there are no data files in vB, just the insignificant space the forum scripts take up is it as far as the filesystem storage goes.

[chrispadfield]

yeah i know.

i mean..

vbulletin has mySQL database. This takes up less space than all the little data files that UBB has.

But UBB also creates lovely great big .html files for each thread. These are going to take up what 30/40 times the size of the data required to store a thread in mySQL. (depending on size of your template).

I would say Vb is going to take up more like 5% of the space. A lot lot less anyway.

[Freddie Bingham]

Well you can search for many posts and see that on avg vB takes 1/6 of the space (the space being in mysql) that uB takes in saving all of its files.