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Reducing Hosting Costs
Authored by: monickels on Apr 08, '01 11:39:28AM

You can reduce your bandwith requirements, and thus your hosting costs, by serving your images off a free server. A quick check shows that the current size of the main page download is 102K. Of that, 90K are files currently on your site and of those 90K, 49K are images. By moving your images to a free server--such as iDisk--you can therefore cut your bandwith requirements roughly in half. I do this for one of my sites and it works perfectly and invisibly. If not a permanent solution, it could be an excellent stop-gap.



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Reducing Hosting Costs
Authored by: Anonymous on Apr 08, '01 12:37:44PM

the only technical issue with this is that if the other site isn't available, then images may not come up, or could actually slow down loading of the page. [the key to avoiding this is to always specify image dimensions in the html]

-perry



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