ZetecVan 2.0 Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 This month the site has been hit with a large bandwidth bill. Much larger than normal. So I've been looking at what is causing it. I found that some of you have very large animated avatars. One of them is 1.4meg in size! That has to load everytime someone loads up a new page with it on. Two avatars alone have eaten up over 8% of our allocated monthly bandwidth. So I have had to impose a 100kb maximum size for your avatars. I have also removed any avatars that are too large. If yours has disappeared, that is why. Sorry for having to do that, but it's something that we needed to do. You can still get some good avatars for way less than 100kb. Look at mine. Sexy as hell, and only 37kb. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
escortmad79 Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Awww my sweet sliding Mk2 has gone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4parajon Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Awww my sweet sliding Mk2 has gone! Yours was one one of my favourite ones as well, never mind mate, you can borrow mine if you like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZetecVan 2.0 Posted March 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Awww my sweet sliding Mk2 has gone! Yours was one one of my favourite ones as well, never mind mate, you can borrow mine if you like Yours reminds me of George Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burns Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 got rid of my 400k one, sorry, didn't even think about the bandwidth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu_B Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Mines gone too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burns Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 got rid of my 400k one, sorry, didn't even think about the bandwidth edit: 5k that should be better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antz Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 yay i get to keep my alcoholic squirrel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toby Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Awww my sweet sliding Mk2 has gone! Yours was one one of my favourite ones as well, never mind mate, you can borrow mine if you like Yours reminds me of George Michael Was he the singer from Wham? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFChris Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Is mine still here..... Yay. But then again i do link to a off site one, but i don't know if that makes any difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZetecVan 2.0 Posted March 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Is mine still here..... Yay. But then again i do link to a off site one, but i don't know if that makes any difference. Linking to offsite ones are ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4parajon Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Awww my sweet sliding Mk2 has gone! Yours was one one of my favourite ones as well, never mind mate, you can borrow mine if you like Yours reminds me of George Michael Was he the singer from Wham? I dont like either of you anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
over_head_cam Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 If people have an animated gif one that's too big, I can make them a bit smaller by removing some of the frames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFChris Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Is mine still here..... Yay. But then again i do link to a off site one, but i don't know if that makes any difference. Linking to offsite ones are ok Whoop whoop! May the frustration continue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vista Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 If people have an animated gif one that's too big, I can make them a bit smaller by removing some of the frames Clever stuff Phil Can you remove the bra from Chris's one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaileyMex Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Can you remove the bra from Chris's one? PMSL Nice one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
over_head_cam Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 If people have an animated gif one that's too big, I can make them a bit smaller by removing some of the frames Clever stuff Phil Can you remove the bra from Chris's one? No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MK5 Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 what about ones that are hosted externally - do they affect it too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZetecVan 2.0 Posted March 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 what about ones that are hosted externally - do they affect it too? Externally hosted avatars are fine as they don't use OSF's bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltamal Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Will keep watching to see if he can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
escortmad79 Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 what about ones that are hosted externally - do they affect it too? Externally hosted avatars are fine as they don't use OSF's bandwidth. Linked mine from photobucket, is that ok now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZetecVan 2.0 Posted March 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 what about ones that are hosted externally - do they affect it too? Externally hosted avatars are fine as they don't use OSF's bandwidth. Linked mine from photobucket, is that ok now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
escortmad79 Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4parajon Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 for you too But Chris gets as his is defo better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burns Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 aaaaaaaaaand she's back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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