The System... is Down...

[Patches]

... And I have no idea why.

I just went to check my site, and it said I'd exceeded my bandwith allocation.

Please explain to me how a TEXT-BASED website with a total of 2.4 meg worth of collective material and a daily average of 120 hits could exceed any reasonable bandwidth limits. -_-* One of these days, I need money for my own domain so I can stop wondering what exactly Geocities bandwidth limitations are, and how I somehow got affected by them.

Unless I've been slash-dotted in the past hour. That would explain a few things. But it's unlikely.

[COSniper]

Thats right, your hosting off of Geocities...they are annoying!

I tried hosting my music sites off of them, but the bandwith was always exceeded.

...grr...

Well I use angelfire, but they have annoying size limitations and addware. Im going to get a job this summer and start another site...maybe...

Just wanted to condone to you that I feel your pain. Why do you have to pay to put up a website?? The internet is public property...! Freaking size limitations and bandwith quotas annoy the **** out of me!

COSniper[/color]

[Patches]

I would suspect hotlinking of images to be the culprit, but Geocities has filters that don't allow off-site linking of images (which is both a blessing and a pain). And I've re-checked my stats now that they're updated, and there wasn't any sort of unusually high activity two hours ago when it happened, so... I dunno. Maybe the whole "site has exceeded bandwidth" message is just a ploy, and Geocities just randomly takes sites offline for an hour every hour.

[COSniper]

You said in another thread that you were hosting all of your images out of your college server. How are you going to host them when you graduate? You brought up that problem....

Do you have a backup server you can use?

(Its better to solve problems ahead of time and not when times out)

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