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Picture host dying and why?

Discussion in 'About phun.org' started by gaphugs, Jun 10, 2009.

  1. gaphugs

    gaphugs BANNED

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    hey guys, a lot of you in the know talk about approved hosts and how from time to time they die, on occasion this is attributed to phun.

    Can someone explain this? And are the phun references accurate to tongue in cheek? Obviously picture lord went under recently as an example.

    Who runs these hosts? Do they welcome phun using them? If so why do they cease to exists? Would the owners be angry at phun?

    cheers.
     
    gaphugs, Jun 10, 2009
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  2. Jetstream

    Jetstream Goodnight Julia

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    I think it has to with bandwidth, and how many times it's accessed.

    An example being a 100 Kb .jpg file hotlinked on a page you posted. If 2 people open the thread, the bandwidth being processed by the hosting server is 200 KB total. Multiply this by many more unique views over the course of days, and it can bog down the system entirely. And given the extraordinary number of views in a single day phun accumulates, and sometimes the concerted efforts of members to "group" towards a specific hoster, and it is perhaps feasible why phun can be seen as the sinker of nearly all new hosters.

    I'm speculating on this, though, but my explanation makes some kind of true sense to the problem. :)
     
    Jetstream, Jun 10, 2009
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  3. gaphugs

    gaphugs BANNED

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    Thanks, but you have guys here pimping their sites to host images. I presume that this is because they can create a revenue from it. However if that is true why do so many "die"? Poor business management?
     
    gaphugs, Jun 10, 2009
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  4. TheRiver

    TheRiver temporarily a little out of order. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member Original Phun Crew Movers & Shakers

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    hotlinking = no ads, no money for the hoster.
    phun = lot of traffic = lot of costs for the hoster.

    there have been two hosts who were more or less killed by traffic generated by phun (imageshadow, photos.cx).

    hence the referral "phun" generated by clicking on a thumb here imagehosts can resolve the origin of traffic, that´s why quite a few have banned phun - too uch tradffic.
     
    TheRiver, Jun 10, 2009
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