Got this email from Modwest, the nice people who host this site, informing me that, in August, I’d used 7 gigs of bandwidth when my allowance was only 2 gigs. Normally I use a fraction of that amount so you can imagine my surprise when I discovered those 7 gigs had been used in three days! After picking myself off the floor and dusting myself down somewhat a little detective work revealed that a Betty Page movie I’d innocently dumped in the Library section had been mentioned here, hence the traffic. Not only that, but because they hadn’t linked directly to the file, all the other movies in that directory had been downloaded on the off chance they might prove wank-worthy. Hence the traffic.
I don’t have a problem with this in the slightest – it’s kinda interesting to have loads of complete strangers delving around your site looking for goodies, especially when they started off looking for pr0n, and I might have got a couple of new readers from the thousands who’ve been through – but the directory has had to go, at least in the short term. I thought about just deleting the file, or renaming it, but traffic will keep coming through that link, so all the movies have been deleted. I’ll put them back up in a month or two.
