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My web site costs me too much money!

And try to find a place for, "PORG," in your ponding glossary.
(nice site, BTW!)

Cybe R. Wizard

And if RR decides to do that:

The Borg said:
"We are _Borg_ resistant is futile, you will be assimilated."
The Porg say:
"We are Porg, resistant IS futile, you will be pond-elated."

P - Pond, O - Oriented, R - Recreational, G - Group ~ jan ;o)
See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

~Keep 'em Defrosted~
Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a
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My web site costs me too much money!

"Robyn Rhudy" wrote in message
...

I paid a few hundred to get fishpondinfo.com up and on the
net. Now, they
got me since I went over bandwidth quota!
They got me triply. Got bill today for Oct - $85+. Since
I didn't know
in time, will get one next month for this month. Plus, I
asked for an
upgrade to prevent this - $79.68 per YEAR (not month).
So, they cost
me $251.16 today just because I don't know how to monitor
bandwidth. They told me, just delete my files! Perhaps I
should delete
it all! No one wants to pay to advertize on my site. I
make less than
$100 a day at my torture job. So, how do I pay for this
all?! I spend
$15,000 a year on my animals, fish, and ponds. I get
nothing but pain in
return for all my work. Plus, I complain too much.
Perhaps because I'm
always exhausted, sick, in pain, and working non-stop.
They won't let me
have Friday off (haven't had a vacation all year).

So, what to do?
1. Delete my site.
2. Move my site to another provider.
3. Snooker some loser into paying me money to advertize.
(I have one
paying advertizer that covered the initial setup only).
4. Pray some more to die.
5. Stop complaining and pay the fees because I'm such a
loser.

$251.16 in one day for a web site that I should be paid
for! I guess
that's better than the $900 in one day for an emergency
trip to the vet!
So, I should be grateful and thankful my life is just so
perfect!
My ponds are turning into cesspools since I don't have
time. Haven't read
a pond book or magazine or any topic in over a year (pile
of 95 mags, 180
books!). I love to read but never again. Ok, now that
you all hate me, I
have the solution! Stop visiting my crappy site! Thus,
my bandwidth
won't go over again!

You got some really good recommendations here and I hope you
can implement some. Some of my favorite fan sites have had
to take drastic measures to stay afloat and even less fancy
they are still well worth visiting. I hope you are able to
work something similar for your site. You've put too much
work into it and it's too valuable a resource to disappear.

So I vote for 2. and 6., with 6. being reduce your site in
some manageable way that will let it continue to exist.

Gail

My web site costs me too much money!

John Hines wrote:

Robyn Rhudy wrote:
4. Pray some more to die.

Get an answer to your previous prayers yet? :)

Probably OT and another can of worms :)

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I
was talking to myself.
-Peter O?Toole

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Spam alert! Reply-to address is bogus
nospam at sympatico dot ca is where I can be reached

My web site costs me too much money!

I frankly admit that I don't recall whether I emailed Robyn privately about
this before, so forgive me, please......

Robyn, have you checked into the criteria for a domain name that is not
"dot-com"? In the old days, your only other choice might have been
"dot-org" but I thought there were now a few other possibilities, including
one for people ("dot-ind" maybe").

There may be other rules, payment plans, etc. for websites that are not
"dot-com" domain names.

Just a thought,

Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC

"Robyn Rhudy" wrote in message
...

I paid a few hundred to get fishpondinfo.com up and on the net. Now, they
got me since I went over bandwidth quota!
They got me triply. Got bill today for Oct - $85+. Since I didn't know
in time, will get one next month for this month. Plus, I asked for an
upgrade to prevent this - $79.68 per YEAR (not month). So, they cost
me $251.16 today just because I don't know how to monitor
bandwidth. They told me, just delete my files! Perhaps I should delete
it all! No one wants to pay to advertize on my site. I make less than
$100 a day at my torture job. So, how do I pay for this all?! I spend
$15,000 a year on my animals, fish, and ponds. I get nothing but pain in
return for all my work. Plus, I complain too much. Perhaps because I'm
always exhausted, sick, in pain, and working non-stop. They won't let me
have Friday off (haven't had a vacation all year).

So, what to do?
1. Delete my site.
2. Move my site to another provider.
3. Snooker some loser into paying me money to advertize. (I have one
paying advertizer that covered the initial setup only).
4. Pray some more to die.
5. Stop complaining and pay the fees because I'm such a loser.

$251.16 in one day for a web site that I should be paid for! I guess
that's better than the $900 in one day for an emergency trip to the vet!
So, I should be grateful and thankful my life is just so perfect!
My ponds are turning into cesspools since I don't have time. Haven't read
a pond book or magazine or any topic in over a year (pile of 95 mags, 180
books!). I love to read but never again. Ok, now that you all hate me, I
have the solution! Stop visiting my crappy site! Thus, my bandwidth
won't go over again!

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My web site costs me too much money!

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:59:41 GMT, "Anne Lurie" wrote:

Robyn, have you checked into the criteria for a domain name that is not
"dot-com"?

I know my guys transferred my site address to jjspond.us, but it's still
our local ISP that hosts the site. Mine is small enough to fit in what they
give "free" with the monthly bill, seems quite generous considering how
many pictures I have on there. I think the dot us is about $11/year, but
again it's just an address not bandwidth, so I have no idea what that would
cost. ~ jan
See my ponds thru the seasons and/or my filter design:
http://users.owt.com/jjspond/

~Keep 'em Defrosted~
Tri-Cities, WA Zone 7a
To e-mail see website

My web site costs me too much money!

"Anne Lurie" wrote in message
. com...
I frankly admit that I don't recall whether I emailed Robyn privately
about
this before, so forgive me, please......

Robyn, have you checked into the criteria for a domain name that is not
"dot-com"? In the old days, your only other choice might have been
"dot-org" but I thought there were now a few other possibilities,
including
one for people ("dot-ind" maybe").

There may be other rules, payment plans, etc. for websites that are not
"dot-com" domain names.
snip

This may help explain my last post a bit. Robyn check out,
http://darofamily.com/webalizer/, and look at the stats for October. This is
the month that my party occured, and you'll see why I am stymied by your
problem. We had 1800+ visits, which induced 25000+ hits, and we still only
moved a half Gig of data.

Tell us more about your hosting plan.

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BV.
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My web site costs me too much money!

Robyn, what is your machine configuration at home.
Are you by any chance using a wireless router or access point. If so you may
need to check the security settings.
Do you maintain a hit counter on the WEB page, if where is it at.
ANO