welcome back.... (exceeded bandwidth)

well after four days without veedubbers, i was a little stressed. woke up early this morning and remembered it was first of the month, and we are back! 😀
so good morning to all and welcome back. someone might have to do something about bandwidth, huh. it was a real bummer not being able to get the daily fix of vw news.

yeah twoguns, second that.

i think maybe that some of the older threads might have to go. maybe some sort of sorting system will need to be used. otherwise it will be like the mods said.... 'come towards end of each month and we go down'.

Looks like a bit of trimming already, I just lost 356 posts..:cry
Rob......

Good
now that we are back I can stop drinking....

:thumb My broadband connection went down for a week and then finally was able to log on and the forum was down...I got so much work done, but great to be back 😀

my olds noticed alot more time dedicatedc to my VW's and not on the forum while it was down!!!
i hope that never happens again it was a very stressful period of 4 days!
cheers
rhys

Please, please, please don't ever leave me again (still waiting for the twitching to stop)

I felt very empty, & alone & helpless, funny how it has become such an important part of my life

WOOO WHOOO. The forums back up:bounce:bounce:bounce:bounce:bounce:bounce

Like the rest of you I missed the forum while it was down. So glad it's back up😀

AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH........Major withdrawels........hope that doesn't happen again in a hurry!!!!!!:o:o

Its so good to be back....😀

didn't really read what the reason for not getting through was to begin.
I stressed out cos i thought the guys from my work must of realised i was on the forum and banned it for me..


all good


glad to see its back!!:P

It's amazing how much work I got done however.

Squiz....

I think we are all totally addicted....:thumb

I learnt via the grape vine that it would be down until today but I couldn't help checking each day just incase so miracle happened!!!:sandrine

Like everyone has been saying, I too felt so cut off from things VW ....:cry My little world went topsy-turvy....:jesus

Good to be back..

Must have been a headache for admin....they must love us cos we're back!!!:kiss Thanks guys...

I think that post of the DOVW with 9 pages of pictures attached would have chewed through a lot of bandwidth.

I reckon if you have lots of pics to post then use an online picture slideshow site like Yahoo Albums or shutterfly, or Sony Imagestation. Most of these give you unlimited picture storage and let you post a link to a slideshow.

Cheers

Steve

purplevw67 wrote:didn't really read what the reason for not getting through was to begin.

that bold 32pin times new roman "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" didn't do it for you?

yea what Steve said. Also we all get web space when we sign up to our respective ISP's from around 5~20meg per account so I think that people should be utilizing that a lot more. All you really need is a copy of cuteFTP or similar and its as easy as logging into a web page. The other benifit is that images can be as big as you like. If anyone is interested in knowing how to upload images to some private web space I'm happy to pen a few notes to get you started.

Stephen

At last we are back


:bounce:bounce:bounce:bounce

Hi Stephen
That would be a good idea. Start a new thread and let us all know how to do it.
Rob...

glad to see the forum back in action:bounce

Quiet day at work Thursday - Lets look at AussieVeeDubbers.com.....NNNNOOOOOOO.........Friday quiet - lets look again...NNNNOOOOOOO......office network down.....NNNNOOOOOOO.......finally at 2:30 network back up......YAY! Lets look at AussieVeeDubbers.com........NNNOOOOOO......Saturday Nite the same........Have another drink put up the chrissy lights......Sunday - same as Saturday......less stressed due to weekend. Monday - quiet at work again - Lets look at AussieVeeDubbers.com......my precious is back, myyyy precious........:kiss

YAY! once more i have good reason for being online! just a thought, maybe we should just ban collections of images from shows unless they are hosted somewhere else. the 600+ pics posted by everyone of DOVW, although wonderful to see, must have been the reason we blew it so badly this time.

ditto to all the above!!!!!!!!
:jesus

I'm quite certain that the show pics are the reason we blew the bandwidth quota, but people have to remember that it isn't the posting of these pics that causes the problem, its the viewing of them.

We can still have the pictures if people remember to look at them once only. Try to save the ones you want the first time you view the page, rather than going back time after time to have another look. I'm fairly certain that this will reduce our bandwidth use quite considerably.🙂

the sacfrices to the vw god worked .... was starting to worry ... ..............:o

Praise the gods! they have returned our religon to our screens:bounce its amazing how attached you get to something.
after doing 2 weeks of nightshift and not checking the forum, I get to my week off and no vw fix🙁
Good to have everyone back-thanx to the forum gods!!!!!!

Free time!!!

Both at work and home, it made me realise how much of a time sink this forums is, not that it's a bad thing 🙂

There was nothing we could do until the first of the month, and then we were back!

We chewed 14 GB in just over 25 days, and yes DOVW were heavy on the bandwidth juice, but that's okay, it's what this site is about. I'll be talking to Brad about more bandwidth, whilst simultaneously trying to conserve more.

I will be performing some surgery on the site which will be hopefully transparent to you except that if you check the threads for new images or similar, the ones you've seen before will be loaded immediately.

This will hopefully reduce our server load ... a great deal.

Anyway, glad to be back!

Andrew

Thank god for that I don't think I could have lasted another day........😎
:party

great to see the site back,also people workin on there vw,s to get there vw fix..🙂

OK, I can see a few posts about this, but I thought I would explain it all again in one place.

We exceeded our monthly allowable bandwidth. I think (need to check with Brad) that our monthly quota for bandwidth is 15GB. That is a huge amount but still we are exceeding it. Bandwidth costs money, and we only have so many sponsors.

Other popular forums get around it by not being able to attach images. Attached images use a lot of bandwidth, and it is why we had to cap the size of images at 50KB. Maybe we need to reduce this file size further.

Avatars and sig pictures also use bandwidth, that is why avatars have been limited to such a small size (because they load in every post).

As others have said, if the images are not on the aussieveedubbers server (ie not attached images) then they take up no bandwidth. So hosting them elsewhere and linking to the forum is a good idea.

And the bandwidth issue has nothing to do with peoples posts disappearing. bandwidth is the loading of info as you view it, whereas storing of post info on the server simply uses server space. Old posts do eventually get deleted one way or another and that will effect your post total.

Another forum I am on has contributor, sponsor and normal membership. contributors and sponsors donate money to the forum to help pay for bandwidth and server space. They then get some added features and something to tell others they are a sponsor / contributor. What do people think of this idea?

In the future i think that when having dedicated picture posts (such as the 14 page dotvw post) it would be a good idea to use remote image hosting services such as photoisland.

Stop putting upo so many pics of teh same bloody car !!! like in the Day of posts.

I saw 16 different shots of the same cars !!!!

wow!:o

i wiated four days to view ozdubbers. cleaned and rearrranged teh manshed and sorted a few vw parts and stuff. wait for 1/12 and i get on to see who else was hanging. not many around. go out for the day and when i come home. whalla... its all happening again. cant belive how many of you guys get on via work. and they say productivity had dropped due to the relaxed dress codes. ha ha ha ha😀

felt a little shattered, dunno how many times i checked from a few different locations. The remote hosting idea is great. Shouldn't anyone who has an avatar know how to do this? Cos i know mine is stored nowhere on here. 🙂
Steven

Have you ever thought bout deleting some of the users who well, dont use? or arent you suposed to do taht? cause i know that thera arent 1800 people posting evreyday

That shouldn't affect it though from what little I understand about it. anywho I didn't have the withdrawl symtoms from AVD as much cause I spent the weekend at Fraser with all the buggies and had a blast zipping around the place. Fraser Island kicks butt! Just don't hit Eligh Creek at 80km while airborne and you'll have fun! :o😎😀

:cryDAMM SCHOOL I WISH I GOT TO GO WITH YOU:cry

Got any pics of Fraser or do we have to wait LONGER!!!!!!!!!!!!:jesus

I don't know if you would've wanted to be in the Dozer just as we were airborne and about to splash down in the creek, you would've heard both Jason and I screaming/swearing and trying to grab stuff that won't move! it was fun though....after the event.
Sadly no Mick H I do not have any pics as i didn't bring a camera. I would've loved to get a pic of my baja sitting next to this massive chev ute in Rainbow beach. I'm not kidding the top of the ute tray was higher than my baja. The tires were twice the height and width of mine easily. But lots of other people had cameras and i'm suprised there isn't a thread with pics yet.

*Remote photo hosting instructions*

First, you will need to sign up with PhotoIsland (http://www.photoisland.com)

Once the pictures you would like to post are uploaded to PhotoIsland, click on the photo that you would like to post.

Scroll all the way down. On the bottom left hand corner of the list of options, you will see a option that says, "Link for Web Page, etc.", click on it.

A seperate screen will pop up with the Pictures URL.

In this seperate screen, click the button, "Highlight Text". Then copy the text that is there.

When composing your aussieveedubbers post click the
icon above the text box and paste in the image url.

Note: Image urls stay active for 3 months.
It is probably not a good idea to have too many images hosted on any one account, because they will probably delete you.

that's a good suggestiong *did*
i know andrew mentioned something about chainging the images "from being dynamic images to being static images by moving them out of the database and into a directory on the disk"

Where I was:

[url="http://grouphug.us]Grouphug[/url]

Cute kitties:

The motherlode

The two are sorta linked.

Andrew

EASY,next time anyone has a #hitload of photos they want to share they can only put em up on the 30th 😀

what about yahoo photo groups? i use one of those for khanacross pics...

http://au.photos.yahoo.com/zjsmits

or

http://au.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/zjsmits/album?.dir=/Khanacross&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//au.photos.yahoo.com/zjsmits


zac (if u want to see...try the 2nd one first)

yeah thank god it's back 😀 😉
with all the people on now and all the posts u might want to think of a better plan ?? i think most people here will through so bucks in
sorry if some one has said this as have not read all posts