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Posted by cwdjrxyz@yahoo.com on 01/19/32 11:34
Noel S Pamfree wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if it is possible to place a graphic on a website which
> is held on another server?
Yes, it is possible to link to a graphic, music file, or many other
things on another domain that may be on the same or another server. I
have both a .net and .info domain, both on the same server, and I link
from one to the other all of the time. The control panel handles both
domains at the same time, and would handle yet another, if needed.
Where a problem may arise is when someone else with a very popular site
hot links to one or many of your files, especially very high resolution
images or massive streaming audio or video files. People have been know
to put up image sites, where all of the images are hot links from other
sites. The same goes for music and video. I have a few streaming audio
and video files for broadband that run up to 80 MB each. Although I
have paid for several GB a month of bandwidth - bandwidth now is dirt
cheap on some commercial hosts - if I exceed this I will have to pay a
stiff extra fee. To prevent this, I have a throttle policy that will
limit the bandwidth to prevent this until I have time to correct the
problem. Also, if you store many massive image or media files in the
same directory, do not allow access to this directory. Else someone,
knowing the URL of just one file in the directory, can get in to view
all files there and perhaps hot link to some or all of the files there
for one of their sites. Also my domains keep track of hits to various
files. If you find that someone is hot linking to a massive file in
great excess, you just change the file URL. Then you replace the
original URL with another image or media file of small byte size. This
usually stops the hot linking very rapidly. Some people use a "stolen
from" message, and some use something extremely rude or in very poor
taste.
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