Bandwidth leeching

[kjpepper]

So dragonsea.net now has this thing that tracks the referrers to specific files on the server. Jeez. The price of having pretty pics. There are more direct link off of weird forums than god leading directly to our server. Jeez, people, get your own hosting account. It's NOT THAT HARD.

*grumbly*

Comments

[morlock.livejournal.com]

wha? for the less computer and more comic geeks in the back?

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

bandwidth leeching - instead of right clicking on a picture and picking "save as" and then uploading said pic into your own web site (sorta rude, but not potentially costing you anything), what's happening here is that various people are simply linking directly to the image on out site. So every time their web site or forum gets hit, the image still has to transfer from our server. Most people have a set limit of how many MB of data they can transfer in a month, and images are a lot bigger than web pages themselves so right there there's a bandwidth drain that you might not necessarily know about it's generally considered a gross breach of etiquette to link directly to an image on someone else's server. I mean, dragonsea doesn't get very much traffic so this is me being more annoyed than pissed off.

[gossamer-gull.livejournal.com]

I link to pictures in my journal all the time; I had no idea it cost anyone anything. Damn.

*sits in the back with the comic geek*

ok hon,

[gymli.livejournal.com]

So you aren't a secret furry, and I regret the implication... you're not an asshole either ;-)