according to my pc British Blades has exeeded its band width.
I'm not entirely sure what that means exept that the site is down
I'm not entirely sure what that means exept that the site is down
BB down
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Stew said:Is everyone else getting the Bandwidth Limit Exceeded message?
Well, It's the same message as I am getting and at least one other as you both appear to have posted the same thread slightly apart
.I may feel a merge coming on
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Yup it's down, is this a monthly or weekly limit I wonder?
Perhaps it's time some of us unpaying regulars (surely I'm not the only one) dig deep for some more bandwidth.
Perhaps it's time some of us unpaying regulars (surely I'm not the only one) dig deep for some more bandwidth.
For those asking:
Bandwidth is the quantity of data a site is allowed to transfer to clients (i.e you lot) - i.e the more people look at the site, the more data is transferred (in text and images) and the more bandwidth is used.
Bandwidth is usually billed monthly, so its likely that BB has previously been running close to their limit each month. The fact that August has 31 days means there's an extra day to use up bandwidth in, and there's probably been something else (extra users, an interesting thread) thats pushed it over the limit.
With any luck it'll be back sometime tomorrow I'm guessing
Bandwidth is the quantity of data a site is allowed to transfer to clients (i.e you lot) - i.e the more people look at the site, the more data is transferred (in text and images) and the more bandwidth is used.
Bandwidth is usually billed monthly, so its likely that BB has previously been running close to their limit each month. The fact that August has 31 days means there's an extra day to use up bandwidth in, and there's probably been something else (extra users, an interesting thread) thats pushed it over the limit.
With any luck it'll be back sometime tomorrow I'm guessing
Martyn's got a busy site and it's probably been a busy month (it being the last day) His host is excellent and they've got a great relationship so I doubt that there will ever be a case of it going down for more than a few minutes without them sorting it. Even if he exceeds the bandwidth they'll not let him hang but sort it out later.
Hi guys yes we exceeded our bandwidth allocation for August.
In English, every time a page or picture is viewed, the file is transfered over the internet to your PC. This data transfer is called bandwidth. All websites consume bandwidth, the bussier the site, the more it consumes. BritishBlades has a 45 Gigabyte/month allocation. That means BB has transfered over 45 gigs of pages and pictures out to the users computers in the last month.
Bandwidth consumption has been steadily increasing each month since the site started 3 years ago. We have reached the limit of our current allocation and I am looking at alternative hosting plans. But we will need something pretty massive and that means pretty expensive. The next step is a dedicated server (like Tony has here for BcUK) but that runs out at 4x the cost of what we are using already. The advantage is that huge resources are available, a whole computer and a massive internet pipeline dedicated to soley to the one site (currently BB shares a server and internet pipe with several other websites).
Because of the jump in cost, I dont want to make the mover, sooner than we have to so I'm hanging on. August was a 31 day month so it pushed it to the limit. Also consumption is seasonal, so we kind of "peaked". But the site is continually growing, so sooner or later we will have to move.
Our current hosts are excellent though, and as you can see, the site has only been offline for 15 minutes or so and then our host gave us a bit more bandwidth free of charge to tide us over to midnight tonight.
Cheers,
Martyn.
In English, every time a page or picture is viewed, the file is transfered over the internet to your PC. This data transfer is called bandwidth. All websites consume bandwidth, the bussier the site, the more it consumes. BritishBlades has a 45 Gigabyte/month allocation. That means BB has transfered over 45 gigs of pages and pictures out to the users computers in the last month.
Bandwidth consumption has been steadily increasing each month since the site started 3 years ago. We have reached the limit of our current allocation and I am looking at alternative hosting plans. But we will need something pretty massive and that means pretty expensive. The next step is a dedicated server (like Tony has here for BcUK) but that runs out at 4x the cost of what we are using already. The advantage is that huge resources are available, a whole computer and a massive internet pipeline dedicated to soley to the one site (currently BB shares a server and internet pipe with several other websites).
Because of the jump in cost, I dont want to make the mover, sooner than we have to so I'm hanging on. August was a 31 day month so it pushed it to the limit. Also consumption is seasonal, so we kind of "peaked". But the site is continually growing, so sooner or later we will have to move.
Our current hosts are excellent though, and as you can see, the site has only been offline for 15 minutes or so and then our host gave us a bit more bandwidth free of charge to tide us over to midnight tonight.
Cheers,
Martyn.
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