: My site is getting popular, bandwidth expensive I'm running a (small) image hosting site which has been getting a little bit of traction lately (2,000 to 5,000 visitors a day, spikes up to

@Eichhorn148

Start by optimizing your site to use less bandwidth.

Make sure you have mod_gzip installed on your server. It won't help make the images smaller, but any page that gets served along with them will shrink by a factor of 6 to 10.

Optimize your images. Make sure you are re-sizing them after people upload them so that they aren't too large. Run them through programs that optimize them for size. You could use programs like pngcrush and jpgcrush

Run your javascript files through YUICompressor or Google Minify. You should also run your css files through Google Minify or some other program that removes all the extra bits.

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@Tiffany637

I advise you to buy a server in Ukraine for example.The servers are reliable and they provide unlimited traffic, so you won't have to pay for additional traffic.

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@Chiappetta492

You can try hosting static content at hetzner, it allows 4tb of free (included) traffic, 6.5 euros per tb over the free limit. But you would pay more for the storage.

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