A note to my PixelDécor! users:

PLEASE READ THIS!!!!

This month I have had a constant battle with bandwidth skyrocketing. Seems a there is a number of users sending spiders to come and basically rape & pillage PixelDecor.

I have taken all I can take!

This month this site’s traffic has reached 15 GIGABYTES. A normal month is about 5, a busy month is about 10. I have raised bandwidth FOUR times in FOUR days, I was even at one time off line for several hours unil I found a fix. 15 GB is 3/4 of my bandwidth I share with 6 other sites! UNACCEPTABLE!

I can’t afford more bandwidth, and I refuse to pay for the opportunity for people to act immorally.

Some of these ***khead offenders have been grabbing as much 65MB (sometimes more) in a single visit, that’s half the site damn near (A normal visit is under 1MB).

So, to close these rapists down, I have put a password on my files directory (where *all* the downloadables are stored). This should cut the spiders off. I hope.

As of now I will post the password in the left side top box, on every page (for now), but in the future if this abuse continues I might require you to send a email to an account I will set up to recieve a autoresponder with a regularly changing password. Or I might require everyone join the mailing list or register on the forums to get the password. I haven’t decided I will decide when I get there. I am really too frustrated and angry to think clly right now.

I hate to have to do this, but many site have had to take this step due to such asshats.

I want to keep pixeldecor free, but such abuse of my generosity (which in web terms is $$$$) is absolutly intolerable.

If it continues PixelDecor will HAVE to go subscription only, or go offline completely. The site makes me no money to speak of, and no one ever donates to support it, if it’s the only way, it’s the only way. I do this for fun, and when it stops becoming fun it’s gone. End of story.

I go on vacation on August 8th and I don’t want to have to wonder what is happening to my site, if it’s online or not. Wondering who is being a piggie and who isn’t (I’ll be camping (without electricity) an not exactly in a position to DO anything about it anyway) I want to make sure it will still be available to people to use, and not be subject to such blatant disregard for others. This IS the only way I can save myself from just giving the whole thing up entirely.

I also will be IP banning anyone who downloads more than 10MB. (FYI thats a lot of files for PixelDecor, folks, just spread your love out, okay?) Don’t do all your pig-like bingeing in one sitting. It’s not going anywhere, hopefully, it’ll be here when you come back.

Thanks for your understanding, and if you don’t understand, BITE ME.

Jen
Your Pixel Hostess (which a lessening love of humanity)