Hi! I have a very new blog, with some nice pics. So far, in december, my blog has had 19 pageviews. That's ok, it's still growing. However, already 19 MB of my bandwidth is used. That's rather high, and it was quite high last month as well. So I think someone has linked to some of my pics in his/her blog. Now, I only have 30GB of bandwidth per month, so this linking could get quite ugly for me. Does anyone know whether there's a way to detect or prevent such things from happening? Thanks!
You should be able to check your stats to see where your bandwidth is going. If you're talking about people hotlinking your images - then you can use htaccess to stop them. You can even serve up a humorous/nasty/porn image to anyone that is stealing your bandwidth. I still get a kick out of seeing eBay auctions that have hotlinked images from my PlayStation site No sales for them!
I'm pretty sure you can. I use it for zips and rars. If anyone tries to hotlink my zips/rars they get a 'no hotlinking' image instead. It's probably worth posting over at the Site and Server admin forum for some serious help... but this is what (I think) is working the magic in my htaccess file (to block zips/rars) RewriteRule ^.*\.(zip|rar)$ http://www.domain.com/images/no-hotlink.jpg [NC,R,L] Code (markup):
You can easily prevent hotlinking of images... this shd help: http://www.tothepc.com/archives/disable-hotlinking-of-images-save-bandwidth/