Bandwidth busters

[johnridley]

I encoded and uploaded some video of the excellent Tesla coil demos to my website last week, and announced them to the GT list. News leaked out (I didn't specifically ask for these links NOT to be circulated as I usually do, so I can't really complain I guess). The inevitable happened; last night (while I was at a party) it hit boingboing. In a few hours I'd gone > 100 GB over my bandwidth quota for the month, which would have cost me around $200. I got out a little cheaper by upgrading my account to a premium one, which has enough quota to handle 4x what I've used so far, and I'll be able to downgrade my account again next month and get most of that charge prorated back to me as a credit.

Anyway, live and learn. I put it on YouTube and embedded from there so I'm not paying for the bandwidth anymore. I'll do that immediately for public consumption in the future.

And here's the video that everyone's been circulating. Enjoy:

"Stop flicker on xmas LEDs" (Watch on YouTube)

Comments

[alicebentley]

Did you want any help paying off those extra charges? I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be happy to throw something in.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

I dunno, it seems to me this is my own damn fault. Certainly someone on the GT list "leaked" the link, but I didn't really follow protocol; usually I ask not to spread it, and this time I didn't.

And I don't really want to get militant about not spreading links. I mean, I send links around to my friends, and I think that's OK. I only send to people who I am pretty sure are not forwarding maniacs, but sometimes you get surprised.

I think after I downgrade next month it'll wind up having been a pretty cheap lesson, and I won't do this in the future.