Charges for quota overage

[Hymer]

This does not seem reasonable. I know that Dane and Kelsey have talked
about getting competitive with web hosting and I was wondering if some
program was coming anytime soon?

Real Soon Now (tm). Nothing specific is holding it up but we've yet to
set the new schedule.

Does anyone have a suggestion about how to control costs for bandwidths
above 21 gigs and climbing?

If you have a popular blog you might consider running google adwords or
another ad service. If applicable, you may want to try to persue
marketing partnerships with vendors. There are bloggers that claim 6
figure incomes from ad and referal services. Even just putting a google
search widgit on the site can generate revenue if people end up using it.
It may also be possible to due some html/image optimization to reduce your
overall bandwidth usage.
-K

Hi Kelsey,

Do you think a new program will happen in the next month or two?

My blog is a vertical blog and only gets about 300 visitors per day. But it
is a vertical news aggregator for Usability so I post about 10 articles per
day and each article has an image with it:
http://www.usernomics.com/news/user-interface-design-news.html .

I do optimize the images from Photoshop and save as a Web Object. I don't
think the adsense ads would work here but I do have an Amazon book link that
brings in a couple hundred dollars per quarter.

I think I need an economical hosting situation for this blog or perhaps I
have to drop the images altogether. Often they are just for fun and not
really needed. Actually, it is a Blogger.com application that I am hosting
on sonic.net. I could have blogger.com host it but that would require their
address to do it and I hate to do that.

So, I guess I will wait a while to see what the Sonic.net program looks
like. Perhaps a flat fee for another block of 21 gigs?

Thanks Kelsey,

Bob

[Hymer]

Hi Again Sidney,

I forgot to mention that the idea of disallowing the images from search is a
possiblity. However, I created the blog in the first place to increase
placement in the search engines and worry about loosing that boost from the
image links.

I wonder how much I might loose from an SEO viewpoint? Right now I am in the
top 10 for all my keywords.

Bob

[Dane Jasper]

sidney <***@sidney.com> wrote:
: But the real question is where that bandwidth usage is really coming
: from. I suggest that you put the effort into taking a really close look
: at your access logs, perhaps looking at everything for a day, and maybe
: just focus in on the most active couple of hours of one day, seeing what
: was accessed and adding up the actual number of bytes of each of those
: things.

Our stats tools would give this info. Perhaps the blog is a red herring,
there could be another source of the utilization that's been long forgotten.
Check member tools for web stats, and drill down to see the actual top pages
and such.

[t***@brightbill.net]

Post by Dane Jasper
But the real question is where that bandwidth usage is really coming
from. I suggest that you put the effort into taking a really close look
at your access logs, perhaps looking at everything for a day, and maybe
just focus in on the most active couple of hours of one day, seeing what
was accessed and adding up the actual number of bytes of each of those
things.

One thought that pops into my mind: could people be hotlinking your
images?

http://www.sonic.net/support/faq/web/htaccess.shtml#imagetheft