I received an annoying email this week from my web hosting company, which hosts the gandm page. They told me that there was too much usage this month, and that I may have to pay extra. In more detail, this means that there are too many people looking at the various different files on gandm.com. Each time a visitor looks at a page, this generates 'traffic', and I have a limit each month for this traffic. In the last few weeks there has been an awful lot of traffic, especially from Japanese sites and search engines.
I have no desire to pay more each month than I currently do, but I am also not going to start advertising on the site either. I'm sure you all see enough ads every day that you don't want to see them here as well. I have compressed some of the most popular image files, and I may well delete some pictures from really old posts, especially those of the 'isn't this weird!' or 'hey look at this new gadget from Apple/Sony etc'. I may have to block access to the bloody Bae Yong Jun page as well - it's getting quite out of hand!
Bizarrely enough, I wrote most of this a day or two ago, and then saw that the ever-prescient Mark Hegge has written a similar post.
Posted by Gary at April 15, 2005 03:43 PMjust out of curiosity, how much bandwidth are you chewing?
Posted by: mhegge at April 16, 2005 10:44 AMDelete the Y_o_n-s_a_m_a post and edit this post to disguise his name. I'll bet it's lonely ladies that are sinking you.
Posted by: nils at April 18, 2005 10:50 AMAnd make sure you go in and delete his photos, I should have mentioned. Deleting the post doesn't do that.
Posted by: nils at April 18, 2005 10:53 AMHave you used an htaccess file to stop people from using your pictures directly from your site? I noticed lots of people were linking directly to my pictures, especially when posting in forums, so I finally cut them all off. You may also want to try a host with more bandwidth. How much are you using?
Posted by: Andy at May 1, 2005 10:27 AM