Everyone that hasn't already......
Please e-mail your host (not icq or aim) so you have written record the following.
I'm saving everyone the time & work here, just copy/paste your name/company at the end of it.
"Hello my name is (__NAME HERE__). I am a current dedicated server client. I would like to be notified in the future via e-mail (or phone) at (_EMAIL HERE_) / (_PHONE # HERE_) if my server/server's go (__NAME A % HERE__) or more above my monthly allotted bandwidth amount. Do you offer services to monitor large b/w increases on customer's servers, and if not, can you set something like that up on my server?
Thank you
__YOUR NAME & COMPANY___"
Optional information you can add after the last sentence, for those running free image hosting sites/video hosting sites etc, that actually benefit from hot linking on social networks etc...This will alleviate their most frequent reply/offer which is to install anti-hotlinking software on your site.
I am not looking to ban hot linking of my content because that is actually part of my business model. I am simply looking to be notified if I get hit by a forum (especially in asia) for a large spike in bandwidth. So that I can decide wether or not I want to ban this site from hot linking (on an individual basis) in the future.
Or
I am not looking to ban hot linking of my content because that is actually part of my business model. Do you have a system in place to automatically ban foreign forums that burn more than (__# HERE__) mbps per day. If not, can you have this set up as a cron-job in relation to/or pulling from my site statistics?
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