I'm Back?

July 15, 2009 8:08 AM

don't know what the fuck has been going on around here. Or, well, I only have some vague idea. The other day, I came and checked my blog as I normally do and saw that I was apparently out of bandwidth. This had never happened before, so I was a little confused. After a little poking around, I discovered that I had, in thirteen days, used up all of my allotted bandwidth for the month. That's fifteen gigabytes. I checked the averages for past months and found that my highest bandwidth usage before this month was about three gigabytes. I was confused.

I bought extra bandwidth and the site was back up, but the next day, the same thing happened. My host was able to inform me that about half of the bandwidth usage was for the transfer of images, so they speculated that someone was hotlinking some picture off of my blog at a high-traffic sight, thereby causing my bandwidth overages. They seem to be unable to explain the other half of the bandwidth usage. And they can't tell me where that image is hotlinked or even what image it is.

But, they were able to disable hotlinking and, now, hopefully the problem's solved. So, sorry for all of that.

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