OMG bandwidth bites it ....

[Annalise Lane]

So this morning I give my website addie out to an interested party and he tells me that my site is down due to bandwidth.

HOW the hell can I use 3 gigs of space ?

Or ................

Is that not alot of space for a site ??

This is the second time in a year this has happened.

 

[old pooner]

I just tried it myself, AL, and got the same result. Bandwidth error.

 

[Annalise Lane]

I just tried it myself, AL, and got the same result. Bandwidth error.

I'm sad !!

~ sniffles ~

 

[MissingOne]

So this morning I give my website addie out to an interested party and he tells me that my site is down due to bandwidth.

HOW the hell can I use 3 gigs of space ?

Isn't bandwidth related to how much traffic there is in and out of your site? So, if you've exceeded the bandwidth you've paid for, I guess that means your site is getting lots of traffic. Which is a good thing, no? Until all those eager visitors can't get at the site any more, that is.

 

[Swguy]

Another thing that has probably sucked up a lot of your bandwidth was posting your pics here directly from your website's webspace, rather than using a hosting service like Photobucket.

Everytime someone views that thread with your pics in it, (also, every time you send a pic link out in chat) the pics get re-laoded from your webspace's server, adding to the bandwidth tally for the month. Over 2,100 views on that thread in less than 2 weeks multiplied by... 12? 15 pics in the thread? Do the math... it adds up really quickly.

And if the pics are large, like over say 150 - 200 Kb, then it all adds up that much faster.

So... 2 soultions right off the bat

1. reduce the size and/or the jpg compression/quality of the pics on your site so that they still look good, but are a manageable size, like under 80k (approx.) each

2. use Photobucket to post pics here (or anywhere else other than on your website, for that matter). Free accounts give you a gig of storage and 50 gigs/month of bandwidth. $25 (I think its still that much) gives you a premium account for a year that has 5 gigs of space and unlimited bandwidth. There are also lots of other photo hosting sites out there that offer free accounts.

Good luck...


SWG

 

[Annalise Lane]

Another thing that has probably sucked up a lot of your bandwidth was posting your pics here directly from your website's webspace, rather than using a hosting service like Photobucket.

Everytime someone views that thread with your pics in it, (also, every time you send a pic link out in chat) the pics get re-laoded from your webspace's server, adding to the bandwidth tally for the month. Over 2,100 views on that thread in less than 2 weeks multiplied by... 12? 15 pics in the thread? Do the math... it adds up really quickly.

And if the pics are large, like over say 150 - 200 Kb, then it all adds up that much faster.

So... 2 soultions right off the bat

1. reduce the size and/or the jpg compression/quality of the pics on your site so that they still look good, but are a manageable size, like under 80k (approx.) each

2. use Photobucket to post pics here (or anywhere else other than on your website, for that matter). Free accounts give you a gig of storage and 50 gigs/month of bandwidth. $25 (I think its still that much) gives you a premium account for a year that has 5 gigs of space and unlimited bandwidth. There are also lots of other photo hosting sites out there that offer free accounts.

Good luck...


SWG

Very good suggestions and I will be doing that from now on !!

Thank you SW !!

 

[Annalise Lane]

all fixed and back up and running !!

 

[Annalise Lane]

Thank YOU So MUCH Moderator for changing all my pictures on my advertising thread to photobucket ... hopefully this will help decrease the band width I'm using.

And SW ....

Thank you for suggesting it I never would have thought to exchange the pictures.

 

[Annalise Lane]

width needs to be decreased?

Oh ... ??