Why, hello there readers! I'm glad you could make it in today. Quite often, a lot of you can't make it to my website when you want to. In case you were wondering why, just read the rest of this essay, posted verbatim from an e-mail I've received all too often in the past few months
| Date: | Sat, 9 Mar 2002 14:27:52 -0800 (PST) |
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| From: | [email protected] |
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| To: | [email protected] |
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| Subject: | Your Data Transfer Status |
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Dear GeoCities Member,
Your web site, http://www.geocities.com/d-patanella
seems to have been receiving a large amount of traffic.
Our records indicate that you're using more than the allotted amount
of data transfer we provide for a free web site, which is 3 gigabytes
per month (measured on an hourly basis). That means that during the
past few days we had to temporarily turn your site off to keep the
bandwidth within this limit.
What can I do?
Keep in mind that large files such as images and multimedia files
can effect your data transfer greatly. A single web page that
contains 200,000 bytes of images will only be able to be viewed
about 20-25 times an hour. By keeping your file sizes and page
sizes as small as possible, you can maximize the amount of page views
your site can produce.
You can also upgrade your site to one of our premium services,
GeoCities Pro or GeoCities Webmaster. These packages allow for 10 and
20 gigabytes of data transfer per month, and also give you the option
of
purchasing unlimited data transfer so your site will always be
accessible.
These packages also enable you to run an ad-free site at your own
domain name (for example, www.d-patanella.com) and get matching email
accounts at that domain (like [email protected]). Upgrading your
current site is simple -- you don't have to move any files and your
geocities.com/d-patanella address will continue to work.
For more information about our new packages, please visit
http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info3
If you'd prefer not to receive this notice in the future, just go to
http://geocities.yahoo.com/opt/bwemail to take your name off of the
notify
list. Of course, our servers will continue to monitor your site's data
usage and turn it off if it exceeds the limits.
Thank you for using Yahoo! GeoCities,
The GeoCities Team
http://geocities.yahoo.com/