In answer to a few mails…<\/p>\n
Thanks so much for the offers of free bandwidth from kind readers blessed with vast unused bits of the Internet. <\/p>\n
Supanames seems pretty reliable, and I think I’ll stick with them even if I have to upgrade, in the interests of a simple life. But I might use donated space for hosting images and any large files, particularly if ImageBucket’s free service is found wanting. Readers will recall I previously used a paid Flickr account for image hosting, but withdrew my custom after their ignorant and brutal cancelling of author Dennis Cooper’s account. <\/p>\n
Some statistics. Last month the DE site bandwidth usage was 1708770K. This month so far the usage is 2091821K. And rising. <\/p>\n
The tariff I would probably upgrade to handles 10GB per month. It would mean paying about \u00a355 for another two years starting now. That’s a reduction on their normal rate; including VAT, their discount and refunding the difference from unused months of my current dirt-cheap tariff. I bought two years’ worth of the latter last October. It’s only May and already I’m too much for them. <\/p>\n
Some of you have suggested I set up a Sponsor DE \/ Friends Of Dickon page with a PayPal donation button. Readers could donate in return for a permanent mention as a site sponsor, unless they wanted anonymity to cover the shame of supporting an elegant wastrel like me. <\/p>\n
But for now I’ll keep the images off-site, and wait. If the site starts failing to load, or Supanames send me a definite demand for the upgrade, I’ll implement the donation button.<\/p>\n
Thanks for the kind thoughts as ever. It means a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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