Wonder what causes that much traffic ? I wouldn't think your site is THAT busy from the numbers shown for posts etc.. Maybe a LOT of Lookie-Loos that view and never post.
We do have lots of them. And we consider a reader just as much a part of the forum as a poster. We only hide the offtopic parts of our forum for viewers for privacy reasons.
Originally Posted by Gizmo
A lot of sites unknowingly host images that external sites use; you should catalog what's being accessed with a decent statistics logger (such as awstats) and see if this may be the case; it was for us and we trimmed off like 30gb/traffic per month by locking things down
We have a deeplink protection for our images. But all in all, we don't host that much images.
For april, we got 70 gb's, of which 1,26 GB was from search engines. 72.7% of our traffic comes from PHP files, with ubbthreads.php being our number 1 at a far distance.
Our forum has lots and lots of pictures, but it's all hosted by the users themselve. I don't even want to guess the amount of datatraffic we cause on the internet as a total.
And the amount of money that's going to the themeparks because we started a community about it almost 7 years back
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