Comments on: Save Your Website Bandwidth

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:47:26 +0000

No problem. If you want, you can add it back and help me make some referrals to pay for my hosting

The link is http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?61672

Oh, I suppose you can delete these follow-up comments if you want to clean up our conversation on your blog.

Thanks! And once again good job with the blog. The feed has been added to my iGoogle.

By: bennyong

bennyong — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:41:30 +0000

So that was what it was… I thought I was tidying up the link. Funny that they are still relying on CGI for the referral script

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:31:03 +0000

Hehe, I like how you removed my referral code from the Dreamhost link

By: bennyong

bennyong — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:28:38 +0000

Greetings Pete, Thanks for your comment and I agree that by having it on your own host allows you the flexibility of controlling all those images. Relatively, disk space is becoming cheaper by the day. Thanks and I enjoy your continued support.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:21:22 +0000

I found your blog via John Chow’s. Just want to say you have an interesting one and I’ll try to revisit every so often.

In any case, this tip of yours is a good one. I do see another con, though more so from my personal angle. My website, http://ww2db.com , has a load of pictures, and they are being displayed from a database table that indexes them. Is there an easy way to do integrate the two? Maybe, but serving on your own host means you can get around that very easily.

Also, depending on the size of your images and your traffic, some web hosts do allow plenty of bandwidth. For example, my host is Dreamhost ( http://www.dreamhost.com/ ), and it provides me tons of bandwidth and it also grows monthly. Currently, I have something like 5 or 10 terabytes. I think that’s enough for most personal sites, huh?

Once again, well done on your blog!