Hey people, I love you and all, but will you please STOP HOTLINKING MY FILES?? I’ve gone and had to re-upload a bunch of my files already because of this.
In case you aren’t sure what that means, hotlinking is linking directly to my image or mp3 by posting it somewhere else. (Posting the image to display, that is. Posting the link is no problem.) I’m totally cool with you saving the file to your own computers, then uploading them to another server to display on your sites/blogs/forums. There are tons of free photosharing options available, like imageshack, flickr, and photobucket.
The reason hotlinking is bad is because it stresses my server and thus, this site is affected by all the bandwidth that gets siphoned away from these links. ESPECIALLY if you’re linking on a forum, particularly a highly trafficked one. Every time a page is refreshed — in any of the forums it’s posted, not just here — that takes my bandwidth. You know all these annoying error messages that occasionally pop up here? Hotlinking only makes it worse.
THANK YOU AND ENJOY!
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