I have recently learned that the reason it was requested that I make the unwise move of removeing the throttle on Apache's bandwidth use were misguided reports that people were unable to use the Kills page. (unable to wait 30 seconds? holy crap, how spoiled high speed has made some... I cannnot use most pages for up to minutes sometimes... anyway...)
The Kills page load time is totally unrelated to our bandwidth use, it is very little information to transmit, the page is slow because it is loading the 1.4 MB binary file that is the Dynaverse server database, to get the server name and the server year.
I am going to make considerable modification to the Kills page so that it is no longer universal and does not load the server name and stardate from the game database as people seem to consider a 30 second wait equivalent to "unable to use". So if you count yourself among these attention defecit victims, then do not bother using the flatfile webmap, it is slow to load. Parsing a 1.4 mb binary file recursively in php takes time, and we do not have unlimited cpu resources. So if 30 seconds is too long to wait, please do not bother.
I am about to modify the kills page accordingly.