[meteorite-list] Bandwidth - Hotlink Protection on cPanel Pro

From: Paul Harris <paul_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:13:39 -0800
Message-ID: <E1GuOJ5-00013e-84_at_elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Hi Darren and List,

For those of us with high traffic sites bandwidth can definitely be
an issue. We pay monthly fees based upon options
which include how much monthly traffic we are allowed. If we go over
that amount we have to pay for that excess traffic.
Today's Hosting Plans are much more affordable that they used to be.
There were times in the past like when ALH 84001
hit the news that we paid some hefty fees for the huge jump in traffic.

20 MB should work fine for you and if not your ISP will send you a
nice little email notification. 20MB won't last long
for a higher traffic sites. Our meteorite.com site averages 1000
unique visits and 200 MB of traffic daily http://www.meteorite.com/me_stats.jpg
On meteorite-times we average over 600 visits and close to 500 MB of
traffic daily with a peak day of over 1 GB of traffic.
http://www.meteorite.com/mt_stats.jpg

For those of you who's Hosting Company supplies "cPanel Pro" you may
have "Hotlink Protection"

Below is some documentation

HotLink protection prevents other websites from directly linking to
files (as specified below) on your website. Other sites will still
be able to link to any file type that you don't specify below (ie.
html files). An example of hotlinking would be using a <img> tag to
display an image from your site from somewhere else on the net. The
end result is that the other site is stealing your bandwidth.
You should ensure that all sites that you wish to allow direct links
from are in the list below. This system attempts add all sites
it knows you own to the list, however you may need to add others.

Paul

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At 06:57 PM 12/12/2006, Darren Garrison wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:54:34 GMT, you wrote:
>
> >suspension of a IMCA member. Just a simple notice that it is
> >"impolite" to link to another dealer's website.
>
>I would venture a guess that most people really don't stop to think
>about there
>being any problem with linking to a photo on a web site, or think about
>bandwidth costs. After all, most people don't run web sites or pay for
>bandwidth, so they don't even realize that peope have to pay for
>it. You don't
>have to pay to use MySpace or any of the other past and present free
>web sites,
>and that is about the only experence people have with making a web page.
>
>For instance, 20 MB of web space comes free with my broadband
>account. All the
>times I've posted documents and photos and videos for access by the mailing
>list, I put it in that space. I don't know how much it is accessed, I don't
>know who accesses it, and I don't even know how/what softwere to use
>to find out
>from where each file is accessed. If Charter has any type of bandwidth
>restrictions on the free space, I've never read it, or heard
>complaints about me
>overusing it, so I don't even think about it.
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Received on Wed 13 Dec 2006 02:13:39 AM PST