Save bandwidth using photobucket

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by Dollar, Sep 3, 2007.

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    It occurred to me that I could save bandwidth by hotlinking my sites "bigger" images to photobucket.com becuase Photobucket allows 10 Gigabytes of Free Bandwidth a month for images.
    I have saved in the last few days about 200MB of bandwidth from my CPanel.
    This may be usefull way for anybody who is near hitting there bandwidth cap in cpanel and needs some quick fix solution.


    A little math:

    If you have 5 larger images on your front page that weigh together 120KB multply by 10 Unique visitors which totals to 1200KB or 1.1MB of bandwidth.
    Link those 5 images to photobucket...
     
    Dollar, Sep 3, 2007 IP
  2. cyanide

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    Interesting Idea :)

    Just keep in mind if you are calling lots of images on a page from an external site it could cause slowdown on your site.
     
    cyanide, Sep 3, 2007 IP
  3. cb711

    cb711 Well-Known Member

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    do they delete their images some times?
     
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  4. harrysmith

    harrysmith Well-Known Member

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    Hey Dollar,
    Hotlinking is not legal and it may result in slowing down of your site also if the linking site is unavailable for some reason then your images will not load making your sites unprofessional, better try to host your site with a host which provide you maximum bandwidth.
    Today bandwidth is not a major issue, you can get a good amount of bandwidth at cheap rate.
     
    harrysmith, Sep 3, 2007 IP
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    yes today bandwidth is available at cheap rate dude
     
    sweet_user, Sep 10, 2007 IP