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poll: Is it bad to link to a small site from here?

RedRooster

Diamond Member
This place seems to bring many sites down, just from shear traffic whenever a cool link is posted.
Is it bad to post links here when you know the site might not be able to handle it?
Or do you think if it's online it's fair game? 🙂
 
I'd assume that 90% of the time a person with something cool would love for it to reach as many people as possible. If the site goes down cuz of traffic, then the person can either put up a splash page saying the link was taken down, or they just increase bandwith.
 
If I have a little site (which I do, but not used for much right now), and it got linked here, I'd be very happy to see it go down from too much traffic!
 
I would contact the person first and ask permission. Some people have to pay for extra bandwidth and might get mad if you run up a $100 bill on them.
 
I think it depends, if you're just going to link to a video or something of that nature, I don't believe you should. However if you are just linking directly to the actual site, then let em have it.
 
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