02:01 PM
Fandom Bunches of apples

For over three years I've been offering free hosting to fellow fans. The only thing I asked was that they use the space for a public website and that they limit it to 15 meg. Right now, that's about 1.5 gig in space and almost 35 gig in bandwidth a month for 200+ websites, 100+ email accounts and a bunch of mailing lists.

In the last three years, no-one's ever really taken advantage, every so often someone goes over the limit, but I'm flexible and don't usually say anything until it hits around 25 meg and people are usually happy to remove stuff to get back down to the 15 meg. I've happily given archives extra space and I don't limit bandwidth. (I recently stopped taking requests for free hosting due to my lack of time, at some point, probably next year, I'll open it up again.)

But I guess there's a couple bad apples in every bunch. This week two people uploaded over 80 meg of files each. If they had just asked me before they did that, I would have been happy to work something out, but they didn't. Ask first works with me, apologize later doesn't.

Bad apples are not welcome at Vox Populli. And it pisses me off too, on a nice Sunday morning, so much for the good will of your fellow man. Bah humbug. :(