How to go over your bandwidth limits in 2 easy setps!
Now, how do I pay for this??
Wednesday, May 3, 2006 by RomanDA | Discussion: Websites
Hey all,
Yeah its me again, seen my name a lot this past month maybe? Well its costing
me, in a lot of ways!!
I just happen to run a part time web design company, and was adding a new
customer to my site when I happened to see this big red piece of text:
43.83 GB (110% used) (Over Bandwidth Quota)
Ok, first off, it normally runs around 3-5 gb a month and to see 43, well almost 44 gb of bandwidth used I about crapped myself.
The first step was to see which one of my clients was sticking it to me... i looked at my logs and low-and-behold.. it was ME sticking it to ME.
We to be more precise it was WINCUSTOMIZE.com sticking it to me!
I looked at my log for my site for the month and here is what I saw:
Notice the SMALL spick from Mar
to Apr????? yeah that's 6.3 MILLION+ hits last month!!
Up just a little from the average of 160k-200k a month!
And all this came from WHAT???
Lets see... here are my daily stats for April:
So what the heck happened on the 10th???
Lets look and see....
Anyone notice anything special in there???
Looks like the main page of WC sent over 4 MILLION hits to my site!!!!
So what the heck was that all about?
Oh yeah.. I wrote a little article [ CLICK HERE ] about www.DesktopGadgets.com and it was promoted to the main page by some guy named BRAD!
Than I also put up a Tutorial [ CLICK HERE ] on DX and how to do a mouse over.
So in just 13 days my site got over 6 million hits!
This is great exposure for me, but it also cause a small problem, ok more like a
$50 problem (*so far)!
My bandwidth limit is 40gb/mo, as of right now its at 47gb and rising. As
it costs me $7.50/gb/mo over its going to be a large bit of change.
So....
So.... HELP ME OUT!! If you have used any of the GCII widgets [ CLICK HERE ] or used the tutorials, or if you got a sales boost from the promo of DesktopGadgets.com then send me $1.
If 25 or so people help me out with $2 I can pay this off and not have the wife jump all over me. (and not in THAT way!)
If you really want to help CLICK HERE
No this isn't a joke (but I'm not really expecting anyone to donate, but it cant hurt to ask!)
Thanks for listening,
Donation total: $23.48
RomanDA
Reply #2 Wednesday, May 3, 2006 2:32 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, May 3, 2006 2:35 PM
40GB is sick. Add a zero and you're talking! 
Reply #4 Wednesday, May 3, 2006 2:43 PM
| www.causticfx.com <-- Click thru my front page to go to BlueHost. You'll see. 40GB is sick. Add a zero and you're talking! |
didnt see a link on the main page, what the monthly costs? I have 20+ domains i need to deal with!
Reply #5 Wednesday, May 3, 2006 3:36 PM
Reply #9 Wednesday, May 3, 2006 7:11 PM
This is a pretty good indicator of the 'popularity' of Wincustomize.com...[though I expect that bankrupting RomanDA is a bit extreme]...
The Article/s can always be removed to 'save you' if you wish...
Reply #10 Wednesday, May 3, 2006 9:12 PM
It was mainly the images in it that were the badwidth hogs. I moved them to a different site. So hopfully its solved.
Ill know next time to put the images here in my gallery then link to those, not ones on my web site.
Reply #11 Wednesday, May 3, 2006 9:13 PM
I have over 1000gig bandwidth per month, and that's for the cheap plan.
Go to my site and click the Dreamhost link.
Reply #12 Wednesday, May 3, 2006 11:38 PM
I appreciate your articles. 
Reply #13 Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:23 PM
Roman probably uploaded his images to WinCustomize.
Reply #14 Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:27 PM
| Roman probably uploaded his images to WinCustomize. |
well.. um.. not YET.. but NEXT TIME!!
Reply #15 Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:35 PM
| Roman probably uploaded his images to WinCustomize |
Would that noticably slow it down?
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Reply #1 Wednesday, May 3, 2006 2:25 PM