$7800 Web Hosting Bill!

Let me tell you,there is never a dull moment in the internet world.  The other day I woke up, went to check my email and found an invoice for over $7800 for one month of web hosting for pdfjazzmusic.com!  My webhost claims I used (you guys used) 7.7 TB ( I believe that is terabytes?) or 7700 megs of bandwidth for the month of March.  Granted, pdfjazzmusic.com is getting more and more traffic every day, roughly 300-400 visitors per day, but 7700 MB??!!  I almost passed out when I saw that bill.  Then I get a call from my bank saying there might be some suspicious activity on my account and that I need to call them right away.  Since I don’t routinely have 8 grand laying around in my checking account, the transaction obviously couldn’t go through. 

It turns out there was a glitch in the system and my web hosting company admitted the mistake and credited me the money on my account. Whew!  Speaking of traffic though, my traffic has been way out of line lately, so I did let my host know about it. After investigating, they determined that someone has been “hotlinking” to the mp3 files on the site.  I’m still looking into who and what, but as usual, one bad apple can screw it up for the rest.  So for awhile anyway, I have password protected the audio folder and mp3s will not be available to listen to.  I put them there as a convenience, but I’m thinking I will take them all down and just have everyone use the audio player only to listen to the charts.  If you do purchase a chart, I will be glad to supply you with the mp3 of the chart.  Sorry about that, but it had to be done. 

In the meantime, I have signed on with another hosting company and I will be able to host other sites as well. If you are looking for a really inexpensive hosting solution for your website or sites, email me and I will give you more details.