Here’s the scoop:
The good news is that my website surpassed 5 GB of
traffic 2/3 into the
month. According to my webhost, this should be enough for a “high
5-digit” number of visitors. According to my own calculations, if
each visit consumes 50K of bandwith, I should be good for approximately
100,000 hits/month. So, passing 5GB halfway into the month means
that I was getting about 150,000 hits/month. I say style="font-style: italic;">was because the bad news is that my
host shut down my site when I went over the 5GB bandwith limit, and
becuase of my technical arrangement, I was not able to purchare
more.
Normally, I could just switch to a backup server, but my site happened
to go down at the same time that I was putting together a new computer,
so I can’t access any of my files either. So, I’m out of luck
until the 12th, when my monthly quota is reset (or so I hope).
Till then, I’ll be sitting on my ancient Pentium 233 (with MMX!)
Mandrake Linux pc and checking the FedEx tracking website every 5
minutes to see when all the components for my new computer will
arrive. Or maybe I’ll actually go spend some time outside.