P'bucket: bandwidth limit vs. storage

[Danno]

I have three lol, and one Marty and my self share for the club pics

Dad?

[martinfan5]

Dad?

My dad died 7/14/ 1999, so that would be a no

Edited July 22, 2013 by martinfan5

[niteowl7710]

Bandwidth (or through-put) isn't necessarily just someone downloading an image, ANY time someone just looks at the image that generates bandwidth. So if enough people just come in.and browse around you could bounce the limit especially if the files are large.

Edited July 22, 2013 by niteowl7710

[niteowl7710]

One other thing about bandwidth. When you "hot-link" a photo to here (or any forum for that matter) every time someone reads the thread you're getting dinged for the bandwidth.

So say you post a build with 5 high-rez photos that are 4MB each. That's 20MB of bandwidth each time someone views the thread whether they actually even look at the pictures. IP Boards is scaling all the photos smaller to maintain the forum formatting, but PB is still transferring the full image to the forum. Now yor build gets 100 views and bam you're at 2 Gigs of bandwidth. Fortunately forums work on the law of diminishing returns, as eventually everyone who wanted to see the thread will do so relegating the bandwidth draw to the occasional dribble of a random view.

But post enough photos of enough new builds in a month and that's another way to smack the bandwidth limiter regardless to the "private" setting since the photo can be seen by everyone on the forum when it's hot-linked as proven above.