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06/05/2005 Archived Entry: "Hotlinking"

Well it looks like I have to become the asshole of the universe again. For some ridiculous stuff. I have several pictures on the webpage that others in the internet universe like. I think that is wonderful. Some of these people use the pictures on their websites. I think that is wonderful. They do that by directly linking to them on my website. This is known as hotlinking. That is not so wonderful.

First off it eats up my bandwidth and while I have a nice account with 34sp.com. I didn't win the lottery. I really don't feel like paying to host images on your website.

Second the rendering time for a hotlinked image is much longer than if you host it directly on your site.

Third if there are server or router issues you site will now have no image and look like crap because it is trying to access something that may be in trouble.

I have put up a little note that is very small that will appear if you try to hotlink to my page. Do yourself a favor if you want an image here. Download it save it and upload it to your site. That way you have it.
Hell it's what I did most of these images.