In answer to a few mails…
Thanks so much for the offers of free bandwidth from kind readers blessed with vast unused bits of the Internet.
Supanames seems pretty reliable, and I think I’ll stick with them even if I have to upgrade, in the interests of a simple life. But I might use donated space for hosting images and any large files, particularly if ImageBucket’s free service is found wanting. Readers will recall I previously used a paid Flickr account for image hosting, but withdrew my custom after their ignorant and brutal cancelling of author Dennis Cooper’s account.
Some statistics. Last month the DE site bandwidth usage was 1708770K. This month so far the usage is 2091821K. And rising.
The tariff I would probably upgrade to handles 10GB per month. It would mean paying about £55 for another two years starting now. That’s a reduction on their normal rate; including VAT, their discount and refunding the difference from unused months of my current dirt-cheap tariff. I bought two years’ worth of the latter last October. It’s only May and already I’m too much for them.
Some of you have suggested I set up a Sponsor DE / Friends Of Dickon page with a PayPal donation button. Readers could donate in return for a permanent mention as a site sponsor, unless they wanted anonymity to cover the shame of supporting an elegant wastrel like me.
But for now I’ll keep the images off-site, and wait. If the site starts failing to load, or Supanames send me a definite demand for the upgrade, I’ll implement the donation button.
Thanks for the kind thoughts as ever. It means a lot.
