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[sgorny]

Well, I'm screwed.

Someone must have given out my website to non-LJ users, because everything was fine when I was gone, until last night. Then, somehow, my use spiked up to 8 gb/day (I only get 5 gb/day) - and the site is gone.

Hopefully, I'll get it back. If not, hope you all enjoyed it while it lasted. That was an expensive trip.

And thanks again to whoever gave out the site on the net. Thanks a lot.

ETA: My site will be back up by midnight (according to the host) - but I'm going to have to disable it for a while until I can figure out how to protect it. I'll post when it's available again.

If I go over alloted usage 3 times, then it's gone. So I've got one strike against me already.

Sorry.

Comments

[sogay.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Generally, your site will reappear once the amount of bandwidth you used reaches the amount of bandwidth you are allowed. So, if you are allowed 5 gigs/day and you used 8 gigs/day, I would think your site would be back in a couple of days.

That is interesting that you are monitored by day. Most sites appear to monitor by month, which is both a blessing and a curse -- if you have peaks with a week, your monthly unused bandwidth comes into use. But if you still go over your bandwidth it can be another month before your site reappears.

I allot my own bandwidth. *luvz self*

[qafhappy.livejournal.com]

Let's hope it works that way. I had to contact the host to ask to get the site re-activated, which they hopefully will do. And then I'll have to change it someway - maybe add a password or something - to limit usage somewhat. I was hoping to avoid that.

I'd hate to lose all that time I spent uploading stuff.

I was afraid this would happen.

[paddies.livejournal.com]

Someone probably direct linked your songs or played them in real time (they did the same thing with my clips...bastards), you could zip all the files, so people will *have* to right click to download them...

Hope you can get everything back... :-)

[qafhappy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just have to figure out how to do that. I'm also thinking of trying to figure out how to password protect them somehow.

I'm not sure if someone direct linked to them - but I did get over 5,300 requests in 6 days... I think someone posted it on the web (instead of keeping it in LJ land). But I could be wrong.

I'll post here when it's back up, but I'll probably have to disable it for a while to fix the problem.

[eleveninches.livejournal.com]

You can password protect a directory. Or even the zip files themselves.

[qafhappy.livejournal.com]

How? I'd love to know how to do it. That way, I can change it easily if things get too crazy, instead of having to change directory names.

[silly-grl.livejournal.com]

depends on how your webtools from your webhost are designed - but setting up a .htaccess directory is frequently an option - also zipping them is easy. Download a demo of WinRar, or Winzip (assuming you are on pc) and the softwares can handle all kinds of compressed archiving.

[qafhappy.livejournal.com]

I tried making a WinRAR file of a song, figuring it would compress it... but it was still the same size afterwards.

Or do I have a faulty idea of what zipping a file does?

[silly-grl.livejournal.com]

nope - music files in mp3 format are fairly compressed already so it won't save you that way - but zipping it will keep people from streaming the files off your site (which I think uses more bandwidth)- and playing them that way more than once - even worse. If you zip it first - they have to download, unzip and play. Also I might recommend the .zip format, as it is more common. Also you will probably get more casual downloaders - the more you make them work for it, the less likely they are to abuse it (imho).

[qafhappy.livejournal.com]

Hm... I spent 2 days uploading (literally 2 days!) - so I'll try the password protect thing first, and change the password as needed. If I have time, I'll zip & reupload the files. I prefer .rar files (as I have that program), but I can probably figure out how to do .zip files, even though I've never done it before. But I set up a website in 2 days with no lessons (but a lot of on-line help from LJ friends) - so I should be able to do it.

[silly-grl.livejournal.com]

well I am totally willing help you with whatever you need - but Winrar should be able to make .zip files as well as rar files.

and you can get winzip at
http://www.winzip.com/

[joesther.livejournal.com]

Oh what a pain... and after all that work!! *sigh* Did you get any kind of notification email about it?

[qafhappy.livejournal.com]

I did - I got 2 messages that I was approaching bandwidth limitations, and one that I passed it... but I was in the air, flying back from Maui, so I didn't get them until it was too late. Or I would have temporarily disabled the site myself by changing the file root name or something.

Live and learn, I guess. Hopefully this won't be an expensive lesson.

[joesther.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hope it won't be expensive either. :( And you were only trying to be nice, too. *sigh* Maybe you should look into password protection?

[qafhappy.livejournal.com]

I'm doing so now. Just I have no idea how to go about it. Contact my Web Host?

I'll have to ask catkcrl or jenepherre for help.

[joesther.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those two would be good girls to ask. They're both really well-informed, and really nice too, plus Jen has said she'd help you, so... yeah.

I'd help if I could, but you saw the mess I've been in lately, so... hm. I think that'd be like the blind leading the blind. LOL

Good luck!! *hugs*

[qafhappy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[eleveninches.livejournal.com]

o_o

What host do you have?

[qafhappy.livejournal.com]

www.powweb.com

[eleveninches.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Your site should go back up when your bandwith refreshes. But still... I can't believe you went over 5gb a day!

[qafhappy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it went up to 8 gb yesterday, and blew their cap of 5 gb.

Guess I have to be glad they didn't shut it down for content or anything. And that it's back up now - I just have to monitor usage more closely, and shut it down if it gets close (I'm guessing I'll do it over 4 gb/day).

[eleveninches.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm sorry this is so late. I thought I had replied to it. Anyway, here's how to password protect zip files:

1. Open Winzip.
2. Go to Classic Wizard.
3. New.
4. Name your .zip file.
5. Select what you want to zip.
6. Encrypt.
7. Click Okay.
8. Just follow the instructions on the screen.

Just make sure you tell whoever is downloading from you what the password is.