I've actually been looking into GD/PHP and found some nice compression ideas, but when I considered the loads of whatpulse.bounceme, they just all fell apart. I guess they should consider ImageMagick or netpbm, they might have the right compression ideas needed for WP. On another note, they should lease a couple dedicated servers, perferably high-end. Or think of a way to spread it over multiple servers so they can purchase dirt-cheap shared hosting accounts. And if you want me too, i'll consider seeing if i could do this myself. Would probably be really hard however, seeing as I've never seen the codes before in my life (although i wish i could).
