Comments on: Exceeding Bandwidth…Yikes!

By: corn cob pipe

corn cob pipe — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:58:47 +0000

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

By: Leo

Leo — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 07:34:29 +0000

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

By: Shawn Knight

Shawn Knight — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 02:07:56 +0000

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!

By: Leo Chiang DOT COM » May 2007 Top Commentators Shout-Out

Leo Chiang DOT COM » May 2007 Top Commentators Shout-Out — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:37:55 +0000

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By: Work From Home

Work From Home — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:00:55 +0000

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

By: Gdog

Gdog — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:08:36 +0000

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

By: fruityoaty

fruityoaty — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:04:11 +0000

5 minute-response? Good customer service!

By: kenny

kenny — Thu, 31 May 2007 22:49:03 +0000

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

By: kenny

kenny — Thu, 31 May 2007 22:48:18 +0000

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

By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:23:55 +0000

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

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:22:53 +0000

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.

By: Derrich

Derrich — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:49:40 +0000

Now that’s customer service.