A(H1N1) alias Mexico Swine Flu made a huge peak, which is still going on, at my websites Kirnu and Cyberantweb. The number of visitors increased with 1000% in few days. While Cyberantweb with smaller visitor numbers did quite fine, Kirnu runned out of monthly bandwidth in three days. My service provider, Webholder, was kind enough to immediately give me more bandwidth without any costs. But I had to do something about it too, as situation continues.
So I made few things to save my bandwith.
- Click on Cache from Joomla 1.5 global configuration.
- Disable your banners, etc. which are visible on every page, if you can.
- Find out, which article(s) are the most downloaded, and try to remove useful pictures and text. If you have to leave pictures, try to make them smaller.
- Do not publish new articles.
With me, this seems to work, because bandwidth is used less even that visitors numbers keep increasing.
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