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Th reason the site was dead for the last few days of March was because we surpassed the bandwidth limit. Based upon usage rates per day, the biggest problem was most likely 'bots' accessing the image files on the profile. I can look at the logs of who was accessing the pages (big brother IS watching... a little). Certain IP addresses are used by these automated programs, and the largest image loading usage in March was about 80% by those bots. By turning off the profiles we should be able to prevent the site from going down again in April.
This is the big reason we do not allow iamges to be loaded directly onto the forum. By hosting images outside the program we avoid the bandwidth usage of loading the image. The system the profiles are built with does not host the image elsewhere, so it became a problem. It is possible to host the images for the profiles off site, but that woudl mean redoing the profiles again... which I do nto have the time to do (now that i am workign full time again). Maybe when school lets out for the Summer....
This is the big reason we do not allow iamges to be loaded directly onto the forum. By hosting images outside the program we avoid the bandwidth usage of loading the image. The system the profiles are built with does not host the image elsewhere, so it became a problem. It is possible to host the images for the profiles off site, but that woudl mean redoing the profiles again... which I do nto have the time to do (now that i am workign full time again). Maybe when school lets out for the Summer....