Major bandwidth troubles...

[downhiller80]

My ISP has a limit on my site of 10,000MB of data transfer per month.

4 days into september and I'm already at 2,500MB. It would seem they're
including requests by their own PHP server.

I have a folder of ~80kb images that are dynamically resized using PHP into
~1.4kb thumbnails. Now for each one the PHP server sends an HTTP request
for the 80kb image, and this is being counted against my 10,000MB.

Should it? Am I in the right in thinking that it shouldn't?

regards,

- seb frost

 

[gygheyzeus]

Your ISP can charge you for any and all bandwidth used by your site. This shouldn't include any local disk transfers, only transfers over the 'net.

Maybe the PHP script you're using isn't the best one for the job? I'm sure there would be a better way to do what you need it to do.

 

[downhiller80]

I know it isn't exactly efficient, but it's easy and it means users can pick any thumbnail size they want. If I have to I guess I'll reduce that to "big, medim, small" thumbnail choices and have php generate those thumbies just the one time.

But what you're saying is that this shouldn't be counted? Because surely it just IS local disk transfers?

- seb

 

[Mungla]

Get rid of your frickin web host. Check out someone like www.netmegs.com .. I've had an account with them for over 2 years for my domain. I pay $10 a month for 10MB of disk space with unlimited transfers. Even though 10MB isn't much, I don't need to store that much anyways.

 

[downhiller80]

On reflection I think I'll change my script. Whether they should or shouldn't be counting all that data the fact is all that data IS unnecessary to a degree.

- seb