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goodness0001
07-10-2002, 04:47 PM
Do any hosts experience people using their hosting account for ebay pictures for various auctions. If you do, do you find that they use huge amounts of bandwidth?

okihost
07-10-2002, 05:00 PM
i have a couple users who run alotof ebay auctions (100+ a day) and have had no problems bandwidth is just a tiny bid above average and they both use one of our smaller plans.

goodness0001
07-10-2002, 05:27 PM
I have viewed some of the pictures and they are from online car dealers with several high resolution pictures.

On a side note, how do your customers react to when you send them a bandwidth bill?

okihost
07-10-2002, 05:49 PM
They dont have one.. Both there accounts have 5GB monthly transfer which they use typically 50% or less of that so it has not been a problem.. I generally dont charge anyone for anything that is a minor overage but anything thats over 1Gb extra I do send an email invoice.. Depending on how many auctions you were going to setup and how many larges files it is going do be pushing out it would depend.. For instance one of these sites sells those cheapo swords (you know the kind like home shopping network sells) and he puts up about 100 auctions a day with about 3-4 images that are prob from 60-150k in size and does not ever seem to have an issue.. Another one is just a lady who sells antiques with basically the same size images maybe less auctions though and she has never hit 3GB..