RE: Re: FN-FORUM: Bandwidth issues

date posted 31st January 2007 11:34

its also worth checking the logs to make sure nobody is off-site linking to her images.

I had an issue recently whereby an image from my personal website was linked to from someones myspace account, I assume others saw it and just copied the image URL and reposted it elsewhere as about 80% of requests to my site were for that image from myspace profiles!

I toyed with the idea of using .htaccess to send them a very NSFW image rather than the one they wanted, but in the end I just renamed the file, no need to be offensive to the plebs ;)


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>Do you have stats? Webalizer etc will help you find out where your
>bandwidth is going in terms of file sizes and the amount of requests
>large files have received etc.
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>Tom.
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>Michelle Penny wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a client who manages her website she has gone over the webspace
>> limit a few times and we've been able to sort this out, however
>> recently she went over her bandwidth limit and to lower it I
>> recommended she reduce the size of some images (they were all fairly
>> large) and also some content. The website is however still over and I
>> was wondering if anyone had any other tips for reducing it ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michelle
>>
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