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Jabberwocky · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2001 8:42 pm

OKay I know all about the can't link to stuff, but this is not about that it's about this:

quote:
Dear GeoCities Member,

Congratulations, http://www.geocities.com/beffy_thevampyerslayer seems to
be very popular and has been receiving a large amount of traffic.
Our records indicate that you're using more than the allotted amount
of data transfer we provide for a free web site, which is 3 gigabytes
per month (measured on an hourly basis). That means that during the
past few days we had to temporarily turn your site off to keep the
bandwidth within this limit.

I put a new pic up on my site and ask for c&C and tonight I get this in my e-mail box? "during the past few days we had to temporarily turn your site off..." What? Anyone come acrossed this prob yet and what do they really do cause I can still get to my site via the link? Now this really makes Geocities CRAP!!!!

I am now glad soon I'll be going on my b/f's server.

burn0ut · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2001 8:46 pm

they have done that to me.. but never emailed me.
hey you can link from geocities btw, you just have to rename your files into a .txt and link them as an image.

Jabberwocky · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2001 8:54 pm

Yeah I know about that, but I just put my link to it. It's easier. I just said that because the "I can't link from geocities" had like 50 threads.

FireFry · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2001 9:05 pm

Not suprising considering it's coming from a free service.

friends don't let friends go to geocities

[ November 27, 2001: Message edited by: FireFry ]

roundeye · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2001 9:07 pm

yeah, tell em you want all your money back!!!

jeffery · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2001 4:11 pm

i keep a photo gallery of camping pictures on geocities, and got the same email a few months ago. except there's no WAY we got anywhere near their bandwidth cap. so i sent them an angry email, and of course never heard back.

try searching through www.freewebspace.net (and ignore the annoying pop-up ads.

)

balistic · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2001 4:27 pm

roundeye: werd

I won't even click on Geocities or Angelfire links anymore.

Get real hosting if you want my feedback (or much feedback at all, really).

Jabberwocky · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2001 6:37 am

I talked to my boyfriend about it last night, and his friend who works at yahoo said the yahoo doesn't even get that amount of traffic for the whole yahoo site that they claimed my one little site got.

Soon I will be on something better than crappy geocities....

balistic · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2001 8:43 am

Your boyfriend's friend is wrong.

Read the E-mail that Yahoo sent you. 3 GBs per month calculated hourly. Assuming a steady, unchanging rate of transfer, you only need to send out a little over four megabytes per hour to reach 3 GBs a month.

You sent out four megs in an hour, so Yahoo closed the page.

Yahoo gets around a billion unique page views a day . . . their bandwith is likely on the order of tens-of-gigabytes per minute.

That kind of plumbing costs some serious cheese.

[ November 29, 2001: Message edited by: balistic ]