I've been thinking about whether webtoonists are still concerned about the limitations of 56k dial-up connections anymore. Broadband is much more widely available (if not used) than it was even just 2 years ago. Several webcomics, (including this one) routinely break the 100k per image barrier (back in the old skool day 50k images were pushing it). I've been on broadband since mid-1999 so dialup is a distant memory but isn't 100k kind of sloooow on a dial-up connection?

Looks like Rocketbox has been discussing this too.

We still recommend ATP and look forward to ZAS, but if you have a site without an SQL database you should look into I-Strip an automation system created with PHP. Additional discussion of I-Strip pros and cons can be found on this Rocketbox discussion thread.