A few days ago somebody uploaded an image and hotlinked to it from Digg.com, where it made the frontpage! But after it had accumalated 2GB of datatransfer in a single hour the image was promptly disabled, Doh! The bandwidth limits (300MB for files that are exclusively being hotlinked to) are there to stop people from abusing ImageHost.org, but of course I don’t want to impede the linking of files from sites like Digg.com and other major sites.

For this reason I’ve added a “whitelist” of sites where even if you hotlink to files & cause lots of datatransfer, the image won’t get disabled. Sites in the whitelist include Digg (of course), MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, Slashdot, LinkedIn and eBay, amonst others. If you still find a file is being disabled for using to much bandwidth when you are hotlinking from a major site (with millions of visitors), drop me a line and I’ll add it to the list if I find the site suitable. Btw, if you use thumbnails or text links to link to your files then bandwidth limits do not apply.

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