Re: bandwidth and art(?)

Hello...

I have some knowledge of the Neopets thing. There are literally thousands of
users who like to make their own websites. Problem is, all of the images on
all of those sites have to be hosted somewhere. The ones who have some
smarts and some sense set up free accounts on Angelfire and such, but most
of them either don't have any knowledge of how to do that or don't care that
they're eating up someone else's precious bandwidth. So, they do a lot of
remote linking. There are people who actually encourage users to do just
that, for backgrounds and other graphics (and adoptable images do seem to be
a big thing), so when someone comes along who is stingy with their
bandwidth, people have a hard time understanding that.

What I would suggest is that your neice get set up with Angelfire or one of
the other free hosting services that allows remote linking (Geocities does
not).

HTH,
Dusty

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelley Watson" <shelley(at)internavigate.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:09 AM
Subject: bandwidth and art(?)


> Dear Folks
>
> I've let my niece utilize part of my webspace for hosting her art work.
> She's into anime (japanimation) and neopets, oekaki and that sort of
thing.
> She's talented and I like to encourage/support her.  Well, her stuff I
guess
> became quite popular because she sucked up some 1500MB of my bandwidth in
2
> weeks.  (The previous month I hit 80% just past the middle of the month.)
> We've had to take her stuff down for the time being and look at our
options
> :)
>
> So, being totally unfamiliar with this genre of websites and the
> kids/teens/young adults who frequent them - does anyone have any
suggestions
> about what we could possibly do to lower the bandwidth usage.  I'm looking
> at setting her up on her own site (i've already registered a domain name -
> it's just the money thing for her being an unemployed grade 12 student
:) )
> but she'll go past the allotted 500 mb of bandwidth on the basic account
in
> no time.  What she had on my space was a bunch of drawings that people
could
> "adopt" (shrug) - it's a Neopet Adoptables thing (oh heck, don't ask me -
I
> was standing behind a door when this stuff came out).  They have chat
rooms
> and bbs all over the place so the word gets out pretty quickly when
> someone's artwork is generally liked. (www.neopet.com,
> soul-net.org -example: http://www.soul-net.org/gallery/pach/).
>
> Any words of wisdom?
>
> many thanks
>
> Shelley
>
>
>

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