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webuyselltradestuff
actually the ads for most of these websites doesn't hit their servers at all...for instance, google ads are served outside the server from google directly.....ie it costs me NOTHING to serve up ads on a site (unless I AM doing it locally on page, but I will be making ALOT more per ad than google ads, so the minimal bandwidth more than pays for itself). I mean websites DO have to make a profit somehow...ads being the way to do it...and while they can be INVASIVE and crappy, ad blockers make these sites unprofitable, hence people won't want to run them....just telling the other side of the story. I for one, NEVER ran crappy bandwidth hog ads nor those Fing auto play/flash/shockwave BS that crashes your browser.
this is also why people can put videos on their site with ZERO impact...they are hosted for free at VIMEO or youtube and the code4 in your site streams it from THEM, not your server. I could make a site right now with every single scrapping videos that is worth a SH$% for instance...and it would be TINY...you would hammer the videos all day long...I would not care. I would just serve ads all around the embedded video and get paid everytime, no matter if it was my video or not.
Just giving some insight for those that are unfamiliar with how that works. I am actually building 2 websites now...one to show people how to save and make money on the web and the other will feature "the best geek gifts" you can buy for your favorite "geek"...cool stuff.
IT DOES suck about the delay for your project though...I hate that for you.
It is these very ads your speaking of that eat up bandwidth on the consumers end, data packages for mobile devices are very limited with the customer paying exorbitant prices for every meg used over quota, No matter how you look at it, it;s theft of my bandwidth.
For instance these websites your building, if I or others were to hotlink to your graphics using them for my own purposes you would claim that I was stealing from your server bandwidth, which would be true.
You would be sure to impliment proceedures to prevent others from hotlinking just as I use ad blockers to prevent unauthorised use of my bandwidth.
For personal reasons I no longer use photobucket or any other image hosting service, but have rather choosen to hotlink images used in my posts on the various forums I belong to. Yes I'm guilty, but the few killobytes used before the thread beciomes aged amounts to a grain of sand on the beach.
Hotlinking: What Is It, And Why Is It Bad?
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