Dynamic signature sites?

Lazlo90 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-24-09, 16:00

I recently came across a pretty cool script that creates some rather dynamic signatures that users can stick in their personal website or forum signature. I was thinking about using one of these scripts but would like to know what to expect in terms of bandwidth and resources.

Does anyone on here own a similar site, if so, could you share your approx. resource consumption and about how much traffic you get per month?

Martin · #2 (**permalink**) 03-25-09, 05:25

Hi,

I don't have any similar site so I am not sure about how much resources it consumes. However, think about script that generates a dynamic signature for you to use on your forum. Every time a topic with your post on the forum is viewed, visitor has to re-download the image from your server, which is probably regenerated on every request. As image processing is quite resource intensive, it not only consumes more bandwidth or resources available but also it costs you much for the server.

About the traffic, dynamic sites get indexed and have a tendency to hit the top faster. So it would definitely help you getting more traffic.

Hope that helps

Lazlo90 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-25-09, 15:47

True, that is a good way of looking at it.

And yeah you're right about those sites gaining a lot of traffic, assuming everything went well it would indeed become popular and it would be essential to have a reliable server at that point so I think I'll probably get dedicated hosting for it once I'm ready to launch it.

Thanks for your input

Martin · #4 (**permalink**) 03-26-09, 05:56

Nice to know that you are considering Dedicated Server. BodHost's dedicated servers are fully managed and you are offered 100% Network Uptime SLA. This would definitely help you enjoying the best level of hosting experience.

By the way, when are you planning to sign up? How long will it take for you to launch your site?