Sleep Spent

So I called Hurricane and they helped me out to the tune of over a grand. (Great people over there.) The total I’ll be paying will come to something like $250---a much more manageable sum.

I haven’t been completely soured on the Song of the Week idea. In looking at the traffic patterns, I discovered that several things contributed to the explosion of traffic. One was the Internet Explorer factor, which I examined at length in a previous entry. But even more important was the fact that I was hosting two or three songs that many people wanted to hear, and hosting them for considerable periods of time. The fact that people downloaded them repetitively didn’t help matters, but the fact remains that if I hadn’t been hosting several highly popular songs, the overrun wouldn’t have happened, or would have been much more modest.

With that in mind, I’m bringing the Song of the Week back. The next song is now up, and it’s really, really good. :-)

I’m also taking everything I had been hosting down. I won’t be leaving things up for longer than four weeks. And I’m going to see if I can’t write some software to cut off repeated downloads from the same IP. (That won’t be happening too quickly, though. I’ll be keeping an eye on monthly bandwidth in the meantime.)

So there you have it. Enjoy... but not too much, m’kay?