Home, bandwidth charges

on Oct 25 in Avenging, Life, Tech by Erica Firment

Ok, what happened? Whose fault is this? I came home to this message from my web host:

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I’m honored of course, thanks ever so much…but CUT IT OUT!

Author: Erica Firment

Erica Olsen Firment is an omnivorous mammal of the genus Ailurus, having an endothermic physiology and a long, furry tail. Erica's range extends to both deciduous and coniferous forests, and can often be found at Linden Lab, working on the user interface for Second Life.

This author's website address is http://librarianavengers.org

6 Comments

bigbrotherinlaw says:

October 25, 2006 at 7:43 pm

may I suggest a less restrictive hosting provider?

Dreamhost, for example, measures bandwidth alotments in TB, rather than GB.
Milan says:

October 26, 2006 at 11:10 am

I am getting 250GB a month of bandwidth for less than $5 a month, with Godaddy.

One thing to check is whether one or two files on your server are getting a huge number of requests. Someone made a MySpace template hotlinking one of my photos, and it was getting requested 24,000 times a month.
jenny says:

October 26, 2006 at 5:44 pm
jenny says:

October 26, 2006 at 5:45 pm

doh stupid tags. i pointed my finger at librarian.net. harumph.
Erica says:

October 29, 2006 at 7:28 pm

I’m switching to godaddy, despite their appalling tv commercials. I’ll try to keep the site downtime to the wee hours of the morning, when all good librarians are in bed.

All the bad librarians will be doing something more interesting around then anyway.
Laura says:

November 26, 2006 at 7:48 pm

I’ve been wondering if text ads and banner ads on websites consume a lot of bandwidth charges?

Also, the FTC has found some web hosting companies to charge false bandwidth fees. How can one know if this is happening? Do they provide you with logs?