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It seems that liberally uploading pictures here has finally caught up on me as yesterday, I exceeded by allocated monthly 50GB of bandwidth. About 30GB of that was image files so I’m guessing I need to move all of those somewhere else. While it’s never fun to go to your site and see “Site Suspended. Exceeded Bandwidth” instead, the positive is that my blog has grown to the point where it needs more bandwidth than my simple $4.95 a month hosting plan provides.
Thankfully, BlueFur.com’s customer service was again exceptional and reactivated my account within minutes (about 5. Really!) of me sending an e-mail. Those guys are really quick when it comes to tech support and I highly recommend them. Owner Gary Jones is a regular Dot Com Pho attendee and several of the Pho-er’s are hosted on BlueFur’s servers. Use “johnchowrocks” and you’ll get an additional 15% off, I’m told.
So I’m going to try hosting all images on Flickr from now on. I hope this doesn’t slow things down. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to upload pictures but since all the final names are changed, I can see how this is going to be a pain in the ass…
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Now that’s customer service.
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.
Are you storing porn on your server? I can see where that would cause a problem
Hotlink protection is enabled by default on BlueFur where Ed hosts his blog.
Weird, I’m quite sure I clicked on the “Reply to this comment” link on Carl’s post.
5 minute-response? Good customer service!
Use the Picture Resizer program from Microsoft’s XP PowerToys website to resize all your images if you haven’t already. That might help.
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
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!
I’m telling you, man. It’s all the porn he’s storing!
how is it that your hosting 30GB of pictures every month? is that traffic coming from mostly 1 source?
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