Ok, so you signed up a long time ago and you provide a lot of pages.
You have access to
other server space - but, there are who knows where sites linking to
your pages and you don't want to
get other people to change links to your unlimited service and you
still want people to find and benefit
from your voicenet pages.
Of course if you are trying to run a real business from your personal
account, the honest
thing is to just get a legitimate business account and not have the
bandwidth problem.
(this assumes you have another server that you can get free storage on).
First, use the search
and replace utility (it costs a small fee) to recurse through
all your different files and
change every occurrence of "www.voicenet.com/~username/" to "www.newsite/~username"
Then use ftp to upload all your changed files to your voicenet directory.
If this doesn't cull enough hit band width, try the following wonderful
new utility from voicenet:
go to http://www.voicenet.com/webstats
log in and check out the log hit file sent to you. The first few
areas are generally a waste (unless you locate one site that is maliciously
hammering your pages)
, but the final table can tell you which of your files is hit how much.
Scan down the 2nd column and look for the few files that account for
the majority of your
hits. If you find a cool graphic file getting a lot of hits (and
more than the file that includes it) -
that means some leech page is using your space. To fix them,
rename the old picture file to
a new name and change the reference in your file that calls it out.
This will drop them out (or you
could find a small offensive picture and rename it to the file name
that the leech had been using).
If you have image files that account for a lot of access bandwidth,
just copy them on the free
server and change all your links over (maybe using search and replace)
- make sure you
get the relative links that are not found by the first step up above.
The next step to reduce traffic for the few large pages of yours that
represent a high percentage
of your allowed bandwidth is to create a running foyer page for your
popular page - this
page serves to replace your voicenet page and direct your viewers into
the free site image
of the page. Just take the following text and rename it as oldpage-foyer.html
then upload
it to the voicenet directory and rename it to the old name. Then
people going to the old
name will automatically get moved over (while being informed to update
links) to your
free service:
<HTML><HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV='Refresh' CONTENT='6; URL=
http://www.newservice.com/page.htm'>
<link rev=made href="mailto:username@newservice.com">
<TITLE>old page title name here </TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFCC">
<CENTER>
<P>
<h2> The old page has changed to a new location </h2>
<H3>If you have reached this page, you are using an outdated address.
</P>
<P>Please note that the new address for this page is:</H3>
<H2><A HREF="http://www.newservice.com/page.htm"
> http://www.newservice.com/page.htm</A></H2>
<P>
<H3>If you do nothing, this page will take you to there <BR>
in 10 seconds. Click on the new address to go there right now!</H3>
</P>
<P>
<H3> Please update your pointers and bookmarks!</H3>
</P></CENTER>
</BODY></HTML>