Project Petaling Street

Pssstt.. premium membership = funds = host move = better server with more bandwidth. *grin* LoL!

Anyway, I might post up a tutorial on how to do this or someone would later so those who don't know how to do it can. :) Cheers.

p/s: Aizu, why neva reply my email of the image I sent to you.. :(

DannyFoo: Yes, i think a tutorial would be perfect!

The host i currently use is very good. Almost no downtime, fast, and also very accomodative to requests. Besides, moving would be hell and time does not permit.

No moving is not the solution, not a long term one anyway.

aiz .. use ob_start("ob_gzhandler") in pps index page .. place it at the very beginning of the file ..

*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

anything else goes here
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

it should reduce the bandwidth a lot since it will trigger gzip compression for browsers supporting it (all modern browsers, including yahoo slurp spider)

my blog is using it .. saving up to 80% of the text bandwidth

aikk .. retry

/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/
<?php ob_start("oz_gziphandler"); ?>
anything else goes here
/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/*/

sorry for the double post

I guess for those who know how to host their images on Flickr or other like wise sites can start doing the same for the link buttons. For those who don't have a clue...then erm...wait for tutorial..hehe..

Done... I've changed it to paul's server... see how long before Paul post the same problem about his bandwidth:)

do you consider enabling hotlink protection for those image files?

Not really related, but is it possible to categorise the blog pings for us plebians? Going through one whole list of blog pings everyday just makes my eyes hurt.

FCL: Yes, we tried that a long time ago. Turned out to be a disaster for various reasons. :)

Why not use mod_Rewrite to prevent people from stealing bandwidth? When their page loads up and tries to take the logo or button from your site it will prevent them and potentially replace it.

Ah...will do my part =)

shades: well, aiz said the buttons consume 5gb of traffic, and i assume not many people will actually use my alternative hosts, even if everyone switches over 5gb will be not affect me as i run a webhosting company :)

if you really want to permanently switched to paul's, you can mod_rewrite and force it to go to paul's :)

ok no problem. i had hosted the image at photobucket and am now using it from there.

aiz, if you don't want people to use the image from PPS, then why don't you do away with the source code found here.

every week change the button image name. hehehee

use mod_rewrite to prevent hot linking...that will save a lot..

I hope this link will help as well:

http://www.menj.org/pps_buttons/

- MENJ

besides, do not display ALL the PPS buttons in the front page. It will save some BW.

lol farking u oso direct linking. gei!

Can't this image be hosted on imageshack.us?

100 mb / hour bandwith should be sufficient for few website. If everyone download them and upload to a different account with imageshack.us then no one will lose the bandwidth.

Hopes this helps

Well, I had a look at the Banners, and i would suggest to recompile them and save them a little optimized. 16kb for a Banner of the Size of 88x31 is REALLY heavy.. If you want I can create you an optimized version, too - just send me the source files.

Regards,

Jürgen

This link will be in addition to the one I earlier provided:

http://rajanr.com

It belongs to my best friend, Rajan, who has generously hosted the PPS buttons on his web server.

- MENJ

I'd also recommend people creating their own buttons. For starters, use Adam Kalsey's button maker: http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/

ive done my part.

It ain't that hard to create a mini banner or button like PPS. What you need is basically a 'pixel font'. Difference is that these font were meant to readable at small sizes. And if you wanna have a design, try to not use gradients so it makes the size even smaller. And as Jurgen said, optimize when saving. :)

Cheers.