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Pleasantries and Bandwidth - Please Read
Jan. 23rd, 2011 06:13 pm*This has been updated here*
This is one of those icky posts I don't like making. I am sure none of you like reading them either. Read it anyway, K?
First, I love that you are enjoying Pleasantries. I even love that there are a few of you who are reading it several times through. Bandwidth is becoming an issue though.
I will do everything I can on my end to ensure you can continue reading when you want to as many times as you want to. What I won't be doing is upgrading my Photobucket account to "Pro". That is an expense I simply can not justify right now. That being the case we kind of need to work with what we've got.
There are a few things you can do to help, like not immediately refreshing the page if the images are loading a bit slow (Yeah, I can see when you do that :oP) give them time, there are a lot of images on some of the entries. Don't hotlink the images directly to other pages. (if you don't know what hotlinking is please read this. In general terms though, if you are directly displaying the image, NOT a text link to the image, and you haven't copied it to your own image host first, you are hotlinking. For the record, I would also appreciate if you didn't copy my images to your own image host either. If you think you have a legitimate reason for doing this talk to me first.)
Maybe try not re-reading quite so often? I can't believe I am saying that, but I kind of think I should. I really do love that there are a few of you that like the story that much (come on, admit it, you just like seeing Ripp and Tel making out!) and it blows my mind when I see that you have read through three, four and in that one case six times (Six??? You really need to drop me a message I have questions for you! Curious writer wants to pick your brain!). It will still be here tomorrow though! And it will still be here next week. Short of my having a nasty run in with a bus this story is not going anywhere.
I want to be extra clear on this. For most of you, carry on doing what you have been doing. Reading through once or even twice a day, if you really want to, is not going to hurt anything. However there is (were) a handful of people who were reading through over and over for several days. That adds up fast.
I also want to stress that I am no where near as worried about bandwidth today as I was yesterday or the day before as things seem to have settled out to a more normal level. I can tell you that at the current rate the bandwidth will run out before the month resets but I am not that worried about it as they should only be down for a few days at most. If that does happen, just be patient they will be back.
Admittedly when the bandwidth did run out the other day that was in large part my fault. I had some things hosted on Photobucket that really shouldn't have been if I had thought about it (layout related, etc). those have been moved elsewhere now, as have the images from the entries that get the most traffic (the picspam posts and similar). I will continue to look into ways to further optimize the images as well to make the file size as small as possible without any further quality loss which will reduce your load times and the bandwidth used to view them.
Okay, I am finished. Thank you for bearing with me through all of that. :D I am a little overwhelmed to be honest. I never expected anyone to actually read this thing. You can of course always contact me with any questions or comments. I'm not as scary as I seem I promise :D
*edited to clarify a point that was causing some concern*
This is one of those icky posts I don't like making. I am sure none of you like reading them either. Read it anyway, K?
First, I love that you are enjoying Pleasantries. I even love that there are a few of you who are reading it several times through. Bandwidth is becoming an issue though.
I will do everything I can on my end to ensure you can continue reading when you want to as many times as you want to. What I won't be doing is upgrading my Photobucket account to "Pro". That is an expense I simply can not justify right now. That being the case we kind of need to work with what we've got.
There are a few things you can do to help, like not immediately refreshing the page if the images are loading a bit slow (Yeah, I can see when you do that :oP) give them time, there are a lot of images on some of the entries. Don't hotlink the images directly to other pages. (if you don't know what hotlinking is please read this. In general terms though, if you are directly displaying the image, NOT a text link to the image, and you haven't copied it to your own image host first, you are hotlinking. For the record, I would also appreciate if you didn't copy my images to your own image host either. If you think you have a legitimate reason for doing this talk to me first.)
Maybe try not re-reading quite so often? I can't believe I am saying that, but I kind of think I should. I really do love that there are a few of you that like the story that much (come on, admit it, you just like seeing Ripp and Tel making out!) and it blows my mind when I see that you have read through three, four and in that one case six times (Six??? You really need to drop me a message I have questions for you! Curious writer wants to pick your brain!). It will still be here tomorrow though! And it will still be here next week. Short of my having a nasty run in with a bus this story is not going anywhere.
I want to be extra clear on this. For most of you, carry on doing what you have been doing. Reading through once or even twice a day, if you really want to, is not going to hurt anything. However there is (were) a handful of people who were reading through over and over for several days. That adds up fast.
I also want to stress that I am no where near as worried about bandwidth today as I was yesterday or the day before as things seem to have settled out to a more normal level. I can tell you that at the current rate the bandwidth will run out before the month resets but I am not that worried about it as they should only be down for a few days at most. If that does happen, just be patient they will be back.
Admittedly when the bandwidth did run out the other day that was in large part my fault. I had some things hosted on Photobucket that really shouldn't have been if I had thought about it (layout related, etc). those have been moved elsewhere now, as have the images from the entries that get the most traffic (the picspam posts and similar). I will continue to look into ways to further optimize the images as well to make the file size as small as possible without any further quality loss which will reduce your load times and the bandwidth used to view them.
Okay, I am finished. Thank you for bearing with me through all of that. :D I am a little overwhelmed to be honest. I never expected anyone to actually read this thing. You can of course always contact me with any questions or comments. I'm not as scary as I seem I promise :D
*edited to clarify a point that was causing some concern*
