Hello everyone. We are BAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!
I just sent a PM to Canyon in response to his ?? about this thread.
PLEASE STOP the pictures. You all are right in one regard. Every time someone comes to this page, all those bytes in those images "transfer" onto our page (for viewing) and add up on our "byte transfers"
(Bytes: The amount of information transferred) -- as mentioned by Bill.
As I mentioned to Canyon in the email, about six years ago when the site was still pretty small, we thought transfers of bytes only had to do with where the 1's and 0's were stored. Oh no, said ProHosting - when we got a HUGE bill from them. If any of you may recall, that's when we had to shut down for a weekend because there was no way we could afford what was starting to happen to the site. (That's when American Classic offered the dedicated server for us.)
Anyway ... bottom line ... we are trying to keep our costs down so we don't have a bunch of advertisers on this site (they drive us nuts on other sites). One easy way is to limit images in the forum (since the entire website is FULL of great photos -- did you notice in the Gallery I've switch from some photos to some linked photos, also?)
So ... please keep your images to a link. Even with a link, it uses bandwidth ... but that is way better than having an image come up whether you want it or not, or even if you have already seen it the first time.
We are trying to be good stewards with the donations from the folks who are wanting to see all this keep on going!
Thanks.
Peggy
