September 17, 2004

Holy Cripes! Thanks to the spoof my bandwidth all used up?

Just got a mail today from the hosting company about the account that I have this blog on and they have told me that I've reached 90% of my limit of 5GB. I know 5G's isn't much but this account is free so I can't really complain :) But anyways I'm wondering how a blog could possibly use up so much juice and went and looked at the logs (which I barely ever do for this site..) Taking a look around I found that the Macromedia video banner spoof I did (direct link) is extremely popular and has had over 2400 views already with that post alone going over 1700 times viewed... Looking at the referrers I found that people are linking all around the world with the largest amount of viewers actually popping in from China. Thanks for links all, but... this is gonna cost me cash on this free account! So, I moved it over to our server where we get oodles of Gigs to play with :)

I most certainly did *not* expect this kind of reaction from the community, but would have to say that it's nice people are checking it out. I'll most definitely have to be more careful next time I think, and no 2 spoofs in the same month ;)

On a side note, I've agreed to post a detailed article over on flashstreamworks on how I went about this project so if you're interested in a bit more detail then keep an eye on things there sometime near the beginning of next month. I might also be putting up an article on MM's dev area but no word back on that just yet so who knows..

Posted by Graeme at September 17, 2004 03:26 AM
 



Comments

Well, I think 5GB is normal here, even my not so updated blog eats that much monthly. I got myself a 40GB threshold recently, which means I can host some of my other sites too easily. What about racing for the famous google's 1 million hit per month mark! I will need to just make the hit multiplied by three and I am done, geeeee!

Posted by: Brajeshwar at September 17, 2004 08:31 AM

We have since moved the file over to our dedicated server, as it was previously hosted here on our blog account, which is a smaller shared hosting account.

If we go over our servers 500GB cap, I will have to start setting file size restrictions for Graeme's little side projects ;D

Posted by: Kris Honeycutt at September 20, 2004 06:59 PM