However, it’s very important to try and optimize your site as much as possible to avoid reaching those limits. Just because your host gives you 2GB of bandwidth each month doesn’t mean you shouldn’t optimize your site to use less than that.

Reducing Bandwidth

There are many ways you can reduce your bandwidth and fortunately they are all in your control. Obviously you can’t control how many visitors load your site, how many downloads they take and you certainly can’t control who leeches your links and content onto their own site, so don’t waste your time trying.

Instead, focus on all the ways you can trim your site’s overall size while not losing any of that quality work you’ve put into it. Besides making your site load in a much smaller footprint, you’ll also be speeding it up for your users and they’ll love that.

Here are some areas of interest when it comes to reducing bandwidth:

• Graphics – This might be the most important area of your site because it is most likely made up of many different graphics. Unlike images, graphics are used to fullfil your website’s appearance. This is good because these graphics can be reduced to lower quality files without compromising much quality. A great way to do this is to convert your web graphics in to .GIF or .PNG files.
• Images – Unlike graphics, images are generally used to display a product or service by way of sending a .JPG or other higher quality image format to the user. You don’t want to compress these files too much or use .GIF technology because you will seriously downgrade the overall experience and look of these images. However, you can use .JPG to compress the image without losing too much quality and you can also reduce the overall size help save bandwidth. Also, when showcasing a series of images, always use thumbnail pictures. This allows a smaller version of each image to be shown to the user and they can select which ones they want to see larger. This way, only the desired images are loaded at full size.
• Video – Thanks to YouTube and some other copy-cats out there, you no longer have to store and stream video from your own server. You can now upload your video to your YouTube account and embed that same video on your own site. It plays just as easily as it would if someone had gone to YouTube and found it. Also, you get the added benefit of having your video be found on YouTube and then any site promotion you have on your account (or the video itself) will lead people back to your site! Alternatively, you don’t have to have the video available on YouTube as you can just mark the video as unlisted–this way nobody can find it in the searches.
• Sound – As of yet, I don’t think there’s a service like YouTube that simply allows the upload of your own music compositions, but that’s ok. Music doesn’t take up a lot of space if you compress it right. If you streamed a 192kbps song from your site, each user would have to download all 3-7MB every time they want to hear it. All you need to do is downgrade the bitrate into to something more manageable like 60kbps. This allows the track to be heard somewhat clear, but not enough to drag your bandwidth down or allow people to copy your music. Also, consider using short clips instead of full tracks.
• Downloads – Consider using file sharing services like MediaFire that work similar to YouTube to store your downloads. By keeping the files off of your own server, you not only save bandwidth, but also hard drive space! If you must have files on your server, try to keep them compressed by allowing the download of .ZIP files only.

This is certainly not a complete (or detailed) list of things you can do to reduce bandwidth, but I just wanted to get you pointed in the right direction. Above all, you want to ensure your site is user friendly, lightweight and accessible to everyone. To find this happy medium, you need the perfect balance of a fast webhost, compressed graphics and images and a network on off-site media storage locations.

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Private access

Access to this FTP is only available to individuals that are in need of transferring large files to and from my site. This requirement does not apply to 99% of the visitors to this site. Therefore, if you don’t already have private access, you probably don’t need it! Here are the server settings:

Server: ledfrog.gotdns.com

Port: 21

Username: (Enter your issued username)

Passwords: (Enter your issued username)

Public access

There is a public account setup that I use to offer most of the downloads available from my site and other various links. These files are made available through the site’s regular channels and FTP access is not required to obtain them. However, if you’re interested in seeing a complete listing of such files, you may login with the following information:

Server: ledfrog.gotdns.com

Port: 21

Username: browse

Passwords: downloads

This account is generally available 24/7, but is subjected to be offline without notice.

How to use FTP

1. Open your FTP client.
2. Enter the settings above into your connection manager.
3. You may choose to save these settings, but ensure that nobody else has access to your account. Your account is subject to suspension if it violates any server rules outlined below.
4. Click connect. Your home directory will be pre-configured to where you’re supposed to be.
5. Be sure to read all server messages or check back to this page as information is subject to change without notice.

Server rules

To ensure quality of service to all connected users, I have implemented a few rules that are automatically enforced. Do not attempt to use this server if you do not intend to follow the rules. If you’re unsure about anything, please contact me.

• Anti-hammering – Do attempt to login to the server more than 5 times every 30 seconds. This will result in a 2-hour ban on your IP address. If the server is full, please try again later.
• Login attempts – Do not try to login with an incorrect password more than 5 times. This will result in a permanent ban.
• Account sharing – Do not share your account with anyone else. If they are caught using your information for an un-intended purpose, your account will be deleted.

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