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Capt. Tom -> website's monthly transfer (2/27/2002 15:00:11)
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Monthly transfer, or throughput is the information in bytes that your web host has to send to those people who visit your website. The more page hits the higher amount sent out.
Disc space is cheap but the above mentioned transfer is not.
Here is a classic example of what happens when a site gets far more traffic than is allowed and paid for. This guy put up some sensational pictures of a tug boat going under a bridge on his website and drew so much traffic it was a disaster since he vastly exceeded the allowed transfer. Some hosts will automatically shut you down others will let the meter keep on running.Consider it a cautionary tale.
Also some malicious people can repetively hit your website with multiple computers and cause the same thing to happen. That is basically a denial of service attack (DoS) Not to be confused with the operating system DOS.
He took the pictures down and replaced them with this message. - Tom
"A few days ago this site contained an incredible series of pictures of a towboat being washed under a bridge and then popping up on the other side. An awesome display of the power of a river at flood stage.
Almost as incredible is the amount of internet traffic the pictures drew to the site. Thousands upon thousands of internet travelers from all over the globe visited this site and and a second one that was set up primarily for ease of editing. The other site, at annex-group.com, was on space rented from Rapidsite. Under ordinary circumstances the site had ample capacity for my needs. The site reached my maximum limit around 3:00 am and the Rapidsite server sent a message to my site manager at that time. By the time he checked his email at 8:00 am the overuse charges had run into the thousands of dollars. The exact amount is still being determined.
I want to set one thing straight right here and now. Bellsouth has not charged me anything for over use of this site. In fact, I have not had any contact with them.
I would encourage anyone who owns a web site to read the fine print concerning your liability in the event something like this happens to you."
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