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Bandwidth Woes

Posted by Mark | Filed under Site News

FYI, it looks like there’s a pos­si­bil­ity of this site going down for later tonight. I received an email last night say­ing I had used 80% of my allo­cated band­width for the month¹! Today, I was dis­cussing this absurd spike with my web­host. He started look­ing into it and while read­ing over his shoul­der noticed I was up to 90% used. From the look of things, there is some sort of spi­der² which is act­ing wonky and just repeat­edly down­load­ing the same data over & over. If this con­tin­ues too much longer, I’ll be out of band­width for the month. For­tu­nately today is the last day of the month so I might get lucky.

¹ I get 3GB of band­width each month and in a nor­mal month I use ~300MB.
² “A pro­gram that searches for infor­ma­tion on the Web.” See Answers.com for more info.

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