Bandwidth problem solved
Some of you regulars (the five or six of you) may have noticed that I ran out of bandwidth the other day until I paid the good folks at TotalChoiceHosting for some extra gigs. What you didn’t see was that I was getting bandwidth warnings other times, but I was able add some before it ran out.
OK, *I* like this blog, but I couldn’t imagine it was that popular. What was the deal?
Finally, I found it. Kittens. Damned kittens. That one blog post was in the top ten when you did a Google images search on “kittens.” And naturally people were clicking to view the full-sized images.
So I downloaded them all and saw they were saved as high-quality (Photoshop #12) JPEGs. I resaved them as lower-quality pics, which were a fraction of the size and looked almost as good. Bandwidth problem solved.
And then I realized, “I own a lot of domains!” So I moved the images over to whizkid.com, which isn’t using nearly its bandwidth quota. Bandwidth problem solved.
In case you care. :)
Jason says:
Need to fix the links for the kittens, though; when I click on the link to the right, there are no pics, and if I click on one of the placeholders, it says that there is no such image…
http://www.whizkid.com/images/kittens1sm1.jpg
Not Found
The requested URL /images/kittens1sm1.jpg was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.