1. A method comprising, by one or more computing systems: monitoring connections of a plurality of clients, the plurality of clients physically located in one or more geographic regions; determining whether one or more clients in a particular one of the geographic regions are experiencing connection problems; and in response to a positive determination, transmitting to one or more of the clients in the particular geographic region an instruction to apply one or more bandwidth conservation policies to data uploaded by the one or more clients, wherein each client of the one or more clients in the particular geographic region is operable to upload data based at least in part on: the one or more bandwidth conservation policies; and a social relevance of the data with respect to one or more users of a social-networking system.