She didn't tell me the number of hits, but she mentioned 200 gigs of bandwidth within 48 hours... I did receive several emails from her, here's one of the emails I received from Alison, she's a wonderful and generous artist and individual... and a great American with a heart as big as all outdoors.....
When I put together the movie "America" it never occurred to me that anyone other than the people I originally sent it out to would want to view it~ I am not the type of person to "hype" my work or think of what I do as anything more than average.
Most people don't realize that the web site owner is responsible for paying the bandwidth when it exceeds the amount allowed on a server. Most of the time, even sites that have a fair amount of traffic rarely use more than 10 gigs of bandwidth in a month, but so many people went to see "America" that by Wednesday night, less than 48 hours after I had first sent an email to my personal list, over 200 gigs of bandwidth had been used. Although I do not blame anyone, the fact is that I have lost 2 of my web sites because of this, one of which was my missing child's domain name and the other my card site, where there is an outstanding bandwidth bill of almost $2,000 which I cannot afford to pay.
Since my sites were removed, I have spent the better part of the last 2 days trying to find alternatives. Although there were many generous offers, my concern has been that I do not want the same thing that has happened to me to happen to someone else. I have written to many organizations asking for help without much success. It seems that the main problem is that the movie has no commercial value.
However, bearing in mind that large amounts of traffic bottle-necking to this site may still cause similar problems to the ones experienced on my own sites, Randy Spate, of The Best of Nevada, has generously offered to host the movie at:
thebestofnevada.net
There should be instructions as to how to save the downloaded copy from your hard drive and a link to the Flash Player if you do not already have one.
I'd like to thank Randy, and everyone who has offered to help and to say that, although I have lost 2 of my sites, temporarily at least, in the end, I would have to say that from the 72 hours it took to make the movie to the 5 days it has taken to get to this point, it's been worth it and I am proud to have been able to do give back something when so much has been stolen from everyone.
Thank you
ali
PS: if you still need a copy after reading this, let me know.
GZ |
