A nasty email arrived from my webhost yesterday. It seems I’m using up way too much bandwidth, running out of my monthly allotment early in the month. I’m not entirely clear what this means or how I did it, but it could have something to do with the more than 8600 reads that Simple Justice had yesterday (a Saturday, which is usually the slowest day of the week). Not too shabby, but getting expensive since these humps hosts demand that I purchase ever-increasing bandwidth to accommodate the demand.
Isn’t it enough that I type my fingers to the bone? Now I have to pay more for the privilege of posting stuff for other people to read at their leisure (and then leave comments making fun of me)? The blawgosphere can be a very tough place. But the people who do come and read do so because they’re an interested, involved group, which makes them different from most couch-potatoes who sit there and wait to be spoon fed drivel.
So it occurs to me that while I have eschewed advertising in the past, there may be an opening here for one sponsor, appropriate to Simple Justice and its readers, to have their advertisement (or offering, or frankly whatever they want provided its tasteful) prominently displayed on my sidebar.
If there’s anybody out there, a legal publisher perhaps, or website, that offers goods or services to the criminal defense bar or our clients, this might be a good fit. Even a specialty bar association, like the NACDL, might find an appropriate home here. Hey, I’m open-minded.
Send me an email if you’re interested. And no, there is no argument that I will entertain to suggest that either lawyers in general, or criminal defense lawyers in particular, are in special need of either Viagra or Cialis.
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I’m not sure how much bandwidth you are “over” however, you might be able to do a few simple things to cut down on your usage. One way is to cut back on the amount of images your site uses.
For example, your frontpage when I checked was a huge 332kb. Your well deserved AmLaw Honoree button was 1/8th of that 332kb. By evening making your images smaller (by running them through a weboptimizer, photoshop or the like) you could decrease the amount of bandwidth you use by half or more. Likewise, some of your plugins you could remove as they too use bandwidth.
Finally, there is always the Google Ads option or sucking up the loss and saying this advertising for my business and its worth it.
Thanks for some great reading.
Thanks Karl. I really don’t like the idea of having to watch my bandwidth, and I really like the videos, even though I’ve been told by some that they make the blawg look too busy or are distracting. In the end, I’ll probably just suck it up and eat the cost.
Huh. 330 KB/visit * 10000 visits/day is about 100 GB/month.
My hosting service charges $16/month for that, half if I buy a year at a time. I can get 300GB/month for $26 or 15$ a year at a time.
So either a guy who has a whole separate car just for driving on summer weekends is too cheap to pay a few bucks a month for bandwidth, or they’re charging you way too much.
I don’t get nearly as many hits as you, and I’m earning about $100/month, so you shouldn’t have too much trouble getting ads—from Google if nowhere else—although tasteful may be asking too much.
Jeralyn Merritt needs a criminal lawyer on her blog, Talk Left, after she and
Big Tent Democrat strayed into a pro-HRC discussion for awhile. Would that be a better place for you? She describes her blog as the politics of crime. She fundraises all the time.
First, keep your digusting computer-talk to yourself. We’ll have none of the vile language here. Second, google adsense? Yuch.
Thanks, Anna, but I have no plans on going anywhere. Besides, I’m really not quite left.
The other benefit of reducing the “size” of the CSS is that the blog will load faster which is why I reduced the footprint of my CSS. Not everyone has a great connection and I find it helps up the number of page views.
Yahoo Webhosting! has 200gb for 11$.
Oh yeah, and my early typos in the last post, ugggh.
Karl,
One night, Gid spent a few hours trying to help me relocate. He was great. I was a disaster. I couldn’t manage it and ultimately gave up. I have no idea what stuff is “big” or not, and lack the savvy and (frankly) interest to play with it. In my age group, I’m considered something of a computer savant, which tells you just how lousy we are with tech.
And never feel bad about typos. Here, it’s content, not typos, that count.