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I'm going to run out of bandwidth in the next few days. I have a limit of 100 gigs/month and I'm currently going at 5 gigs per day, and for the month I'm at 66 so far (which mean's I'll run out in about 5-6 days). Not sure what I can do, but will try to figure out something. If this site goes offline, it will go back online by the first of next month.
So my host was getting annoyed (I could tell) but agreed to give me 30 gigs free for this month, but he still said my inauguration site was causing a drain on resources. I used another plugin to see what was slowing down my site, and I discovered it was bbPress. I uninstalled that and the related plugins. Here are my metrics from before and after the uninstall:BeforeTotal Load Time: 10.4113seconds avg.Site Load Time 2.1379seconds avg.Profile Overhead: 8.2734seconds avg.Plugin Load Time: 1.7921seconds avg.Theme Load Time: 0.0903seconds avg.Core Load Time: 0.0627seconds avg.Margin of Error: 0.1927seconds avg.(10.4113 observed, 10.2186 expected)Visits: 3Number of PHP ticks: 136,040 calls avg.Memory Usage: 124.58 MB avg.MySQL Queries: 115 queries avg.After Total Load Time: 0.8796seconds avg.Site Load Time 0.4293seconds avg.Profile Overhead: 0.4503seconds avg.Plugin Load Time: 0.2656seconds avg.Theme Load Time: 0.0945seconds avg.Core Load Time: 0.0600seconds avg.Margin of Error: 0.0093seconds avg.(0.8796 observed, 0.8704 expected)Visits: 3Number of PHP ticks: 8,680 calls avg.Memory Usage: 49.92 MB avg.MySQL Queries: 102 queries avg.Whoa! While bbBress was obviously a major drag, I am hoping it resolves the specific drain on the server that my host was telling me about.
Well, I imagine that unlimited traffic as advertised really isn't unlimited; it's probably the case that if you go too high, they will either cut you off or slow you down, because hosts can't actually provide “unlimited” bandwidth. 100 gb/month is usually more than plenty for all my sites. It's just that this month is particularly busy.
Well yeah, they slow me down after 150gb I think. I have never even come close to that though. I think my highest traffic in one month was something like 45gb.
That's still pretty much for a site like yours, since it doesn't seem to have much downloadable content or be graphics intensive. Or, perhaps you have other sites aside from your book review site? I have been getting around many visitors daily recently on my Inauguration site, and I think that has been using up 4-5 gb/day, and I have an average number of images on the site. Last Inauguration, I had almost 50k visitors on Inauguration day. Incidentally, if you are interested, I have several military galas posted on the site. If you want, I can put a link to your book reviews site on those pages. It would be interesting to see how much traffic that would give you.
That would be cool if you could link my site on your military gala pages. I am up to about 5-10k visitors a month on my site. My paper on the Battle of Waterloo is still my biggest traffic generator though. I even found that paper offered for sale on a cheating site once. they took it down after I asserted copyright and threatened to sue. 😀
I even found that paper offered for sale on a cheating site once. they took it down after I asserted copyright and threatened to sue. 😀
You made it to the bigtime now!
That would be cool if you could link my site on your military gala pages. I am up to about 5-10k visitors a month on my site. My paper on the Battle of Waterloo is still my biggest traffic generator though. I even found that paper offered for sale on a cheating site once. they took it down after I asserted copyright and threatened to sue. 😀
You should almost have asked for all the proceeds that the company received from putting your paper online. I have to imagine that a simple google search on their part would have uncovered the fact that the paper was already posted elsewhere. At least you got it taken down...for now.Ok so I posted simple text advertisements on three ball pages to Battles and Book reviews. The balls are the Commander-in-Chief's Ball, the Salute to Heroes Banquet and Ball, and the Heroes Red, White, and Blue Inaugural Ball. I'm curious to see how many people click on the links.
I thought about but was then just happy to have them take it down and put a link on their site to mine where the paper is posted.
Well I am rapidly eating through more bandwidth. I am at 110 gb out of 130 gb max for the month. Although I expect traffic to decrease dramatically after today on my inauguration site, it might just tip the scales and put my sites offline until the end of the month. If so, I will post updates over at Christian Legacies. Scout, unfortunately it does not look like many people have clicked on your link. Admittedly, there are many links on my site, so they might get lost in it all. I dunno.
Last I checked, I was at about 98% of my bandwidth's capacity. I was thinking of turning some of my other sites offline completely (temporarily) so as to save bandwidth for my most important sites, but that would only prolong the inevitable by another day or two. It would also make me feel too much like Scotty: “Mr. Scott, divert more power to warp engines!” “I'm tryin' captain!”
