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Re: Surprisingly High Traffic
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 27 Mar 2002 04:27:16 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Matt Hein writes:
> In lugnet.general, Blake Kunisch writes:
> > Unfortunately, the idiotic way the people at Geocities do it (AFAIK), is
> > that they determine how much bandwidth PER HOUR you are allowed to use,
> > based on how much you are given per month. So if you have one bad hour,
> > despite having previous slow hours, you are out of luck. I think a better
> > way to do it would be per day, rather than per hour, that way slow hours
> > could offset heavy hours, but I guess there's pros and cons of each
> > way. Good luck with your hosting nonetheless.
> >
> > =Blake=
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> Per day updates would be a LOT better than on a hourly basis. The one thing
> I don't understand I why they have to shut down the site after many slow
> hours, in spite of one fast hour. What's up with that, anyway?
>
> Maybe It's all just a scam to get people to switch to their paid hosting
> service? :) Just a thought!
>
> Just my two brickz...
It's just a Yahoo! plow! Whatever you do don't bother paying for the extra
service. Screw them! You can set up a mirror site at www.tripod.com to
help offset your "this site is out...". I've had this problem before with
yahoo and finally just moved over to tripod.com. It's a free service and
you get 50MB of space for starters. A much better deal than yahoo. Do
yourself a favor, avoid the headaches and MOVE to tripod. You can ftp your
site over there...
Ahui
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| (...) [...] (...) Better yet, move it somewhere without ads. When I see a geocities or tripod site advertised on Lugnet, I usually don't bother visiting it at all, unless the description is extremely enticing. I especially hate tripod - at least the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish.html)
| | | Re: Surprisingly High Traffic
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| [snip] (...) Actually you would be better off going to FortuneCity. You get 100MB of space and there are no annoying pop-up ads. There is an small banner inserted at the top of all your pages but it is no big deal compared to pop-ups. For an example (...) (24 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Surprisingly High Traffic
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| (...) Per day updates would be a LOT better than on a hourly basis. The one thing I don't understand I why they have to shut down the site after many slow hours, in spite of one fast hour. What's up with that, anyway? Maybe It's all just a scam to (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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