It has to do with how many times an icon is viewed. Hosting sites like Photobucket only have so much memory so they limit how often they can be seen. The more it is viewed the quicker your bandwidth (or alloted memory) is used
Well, for example when you upload pictures on photobucket.com and you copy the link to post them in your journal, and then someone else copy the link from your pics somewhere else, they hotlink. And hotlinking means using the links for the pics someone else has uploaded. And it sucks, because when you upload pics on photobucket you have a certain space for linking your pics, but if they're being hotlinked then your space gets less and less. And that space it called bandwidth. When too many people link to your pics the bandwidth exceeds and your pics disappear. Sites like photobucket have too much traffic and that's why the albums have bandwidth.
When too many people link to your pics the bandwidth exceeds and your pics disappear.
Or, worse, you could be losing what you paid for, if you pay for web hosting space or bandwidth. In this day and age you get a lot more leeway with most providers but a couple of years ago, having a few hotlinkers could either (a) cost you an extra $40 or more per month, or (b) cause you to lose access to a hosting service for which you had paid until the next billing period began.
Its not limited images. Loading this page used a certain amount of bandwidth, and direct linking to videos or zip files will also use up bandwidth. Basically the sum file size of a page loaded.
And some people pay for their hosting, and if they go over their alotted monthly amount, they get charged for the overages, which is where some of the anger over hotlinking comes from.
think of bandwidth as the road on which all data flows. in the case of sites that limit bandwidth (like freebie storage sites or tiered accounts), they only allow a certain number of cars to travel on the road to and from that account each month. if enough people load the file(s) you have stored there and exceed your account's limit, they close the road.
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Or, worse, you could be losing what you paid for, if you pay for web hosting space or bandwidth. In this day and age you get a lot more leeway with most providers but a couple of years ago, having a few hotlinkers could either (a) cost you an extra $40 or more per month, or (b) cause you to lose access to a hosting service for which you had paid until the next billing period began.
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And some people pay for their hosting, and if they go over their alotted monthly amount, they get charged for the overages, which is where some of the anger over hotlinking comes from.
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