Comments on: Housekeeping (3 Comments)

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:49:18 +0000

Sweet. Well I’m set as a regular visitor no matter how it turns out.

Thanks for the good work so far, and long may it continue.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:13:09 +0000

Thanks for the link Lazlo. At my present bandwith limits I am not so concerned about the direct link back. As i have said I am getting more free advertising for the site than what it might cost me if bandwidth were and issue. Hopefully, I will get to a point where I am concerned about all those pictures I am feeding. I would much rather have too much credit via a hot link, than no link at all.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:03:57 +0000

Re: the link from the scuba diving forum.

That would have been me – posting under a psuedonym (Lazlo).

I hope you didn’t mind the “hot link” to your material (and I was careful to leave a proper (real) link to your site). Why might you mind? Because some sites, once they get to a certain level of popularity frown on the practice – they accuse their readers of “stealing bandwidth”. I can see the point – as traffic increases, so does the hosting cost.

The alternative is to make a copy of the picture, host it separately and post that, and (assuming that the poster cares about such things) include a hyperlink to the original source. Do you have a preference? If so, it might be worth putting it up somewhere…