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Reddit: The Bandwidth Thief

For those of you who are unfamiliar with reddit, it’s a social bookmarking site much like Digg. It’s got a smaller user base but, in my experience, there is a different atmosphere or feeling amongst it’s users. It’s a lot more friendly in the comments section. Despite it’s smaller user base I’ve had posts on [...]

Has Social Media Legitimized Hotlinking in Web 2.0?

Hotlinking used to be a bad thing. Essentially bandwidth theft, hotlinking is the practice of displaying and image (or video, audio file etc… ) on your site but actually having the file served by someone else’s server. In other words you use their bandwidth to display the file on your site. (This is not the [...]

What the heck is Buzzwatch and why is it eating your bandwidth?

A good friend of mine got hit with a notice from his web host today that his site was exceeding his allocated bandwidth for the month. The site in question has a bandwidth allocation of 2.75 GB which should be more than enough for it’s current traffic load. Anyway, I was asked to take a [...]