I believe our own Mark Cassino had linking problems. He had a great collection of insect macros on line (still does), and all of a sudden visitors from asia were overwhelming his bandwidth.
My concern about hot-linking is porn. All the abused owner needs to do is change his picture. Of course, nobody on the pdml would do anything like this. ;-) Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > If a bazillion users became interested in reading your articles that's > one thing. You can turn pro, upgrade your hosting package and be > happy. > > But articles on a busy site that includes a hotlinked *image* from > yours only causes your own bandwidth to be consumed with no returns to > you. Why should you pay big bucks to host an image for somebody else's > benefit? > > That's why there's now a distinction being made. Sure, your logic is > sound, but it still pisses people off. It's like when people use your > front lawn to take a shortcut across your corner property. You don't > like it and will put up a fence to stop it. But shortcutting is a > logical thing for people to do. > > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:27 PM, David Parsons <parsons.da...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> The same thing can happen simply by linking to the site. It the risk >> you run by making your content available to the entire planet. >> >> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> > >>>> > >I don't really understand why people copy other people's pictures onto >>>> > >their own servers when they could link to them perfectly legally: >>>> > >>>> > A lot of sites have their .htaccess file set up to prevent hotlinking >>>> > this way. >>>> > >>>> >>>> I can't understand that either - what's the internet for if not that? >>>> >>>> B >>> >>> It was designed that way, but folks call that "bandwidth-stealing" now >>> if you hotlink their images from your site. And it's for a practical >>> reason ... >>> >>> Say you have a basic $5/month limited hosting service with your blog >>> "Cormo-Rants" on it. One day somebody from CNN hotlinks an image from >>> your site, and suddenly your daily bandwidth usage goes through the >>> roof. Your host shuts down your site when your monthly allotment is >>> used up in 4 days. >>> >>> -- >>> -bmw >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> David Parsons Photography >> http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com >> >> Aloha Photographer Photoblog >> http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
