Exceeding Bandwidth…Yikes!

Posted on May 31st, 2007 by Ed Lau in Tech and the Net


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  1. Derrich said on May 31st, 2007 at 11:49 am

    Now that’s customer service.

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  2. Carl said on May 31st, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    I think the problem may be that people are using your pics and hotlinking them on other blogs and forums. Check your referrals to see how bad it is… Try looking for an anti-hotlinking plugin for Wordpress. I don’t think this site gets enough traffic to serve 30GB of images, even with the high amount you use… You definitely shouldn’t have to use a 3rd party service. You should have plenty of bandwidth.

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  3. Leo said on May 31st, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    Are you storing porn on your server? I can see where that would cause a problem ;)

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  4. kenny said on May 31st, 2007 at 3:48 pm

    Hotlink protection is enabled by default on BlueFur where Ed hosts his blog.

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  5. kenny said on May 31st, 2007 at 3:49 pm

    Weird, I’m quite sure I clicked on the “Reply to this comment” link on Carl’s post.

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  6. fruityoaty said on May 31st, 2007 at 4:04 pm

    5 minute-response? Good customer service!

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  7. Gdog said on May 31st, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    Use the Picture Resizer program from Microsoft’s XP PowerToys website to resize all your images if you haven’t already. That might help.

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  8. Work From Home said on June 1st, 2007 at 3:00 pm

    I have used Flickr in the past, and it is great for this application. It also generates a reasonable amount of traffic, if you properly tag your photos, and stick a link to your website in the descriptions.

    Otherwise, perhaps a better compression system would work?

    - Mike

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  9. Shawn Knight said on June 1st, 2007 at 7:07 pm

    Very nice customer service. My host is terrible when it comes to keeping my site up under load and generally just lying to my face about it.

    I will be looking to move servers before the end of next month, so I might give Bluefur a look.

    Oh, and wow that is a LOT of pictures!

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  10. Leo said on June 2nd, 2007 at 12:34 am

    I’m telling you, man. It’s all the porn he’s storing!

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  11. corn cob pipe said on June 4th, 2007 at 1:58 pm

    how is it that your hosting 30GB of pictures every month? is that traffic coming from mostly 1 source?

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  12. Leo Chiang DOT COM » May 2007 Top Commentators Shout-Out said on June 1st, 2007 at 3:37 pm

    [...] he stores so much porn on his website server that they had to shut him down because he exceeded his capacity. Much [...]

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