01-13-2018, 08:35 PM
(01-13-2018, 11:47 AM)Espermaschine Wrote:(01-13-2018, 11:17 AM)rich2005 Wrote: noooo...
Save our bandwidth, This is a redirect from Gimpchat, let them host it.
lol, i didnt know
is bandwidth an issue these days ?
Technically, according to the terms of service, our hosting service can charge for the bandwidth (in addition to the server). In practice, they admit they cannot do it accurately, so they don't, but they reserve the right to throttle (or even shut down) any abuser. But I don't know the limit, and I don't want to try.
And server bandwidth isn't the only side of the story, one has to think about users with low reception bandwidth (depending on country and/or mobile carrier...).
Now, if the picture were hosted on GF, they would be thumbnails (somewhat large ones, but still thumbnails) and you would have to click on them
to see the image at full size, which saves bandwidth for every one.