[Coco] Roger Taylor of CoCo3

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:22 PM 2/15/2007, you wrote:
>Roger:
>
>Is holinking the same as just creating a link to your
>page?
>
>If it's easier, I can just have a text based link.
>
>Jim



No, hotlinking is mainly directly referencing graphics or downloads 
that are located on somebody else's server which uses their bandwidth 
instead of yours.

<img src="http://www.coco3.com/img/somepicture.jpg"> would show the 
picture on your site, but would pull it from mine.

This is not a huge concern but I have to reduce bandwidth and 
increase response time since the site is now pulling in mega hits, 
and I also have large downloads on the same server, like Portal-9 and Rainbow.

Another reason... go to Google and type in "color computer" and look 
who's up top.  One of the side effects of all my hard work getting an 
excellent s.e. ranking is that a lot of non-CoCo visitors are 
dropping in simply because the listing shows up now for fewer 
keywords, and I feel that a lot of people just click it to see if it 
matches what they're looking for.  The site has been sluggish in the 
past and sometimes when I'm trying to upload new files, the FTP 
server lags on me as if the site is under strain (at times).

Ofcourse, I don't think that an occasional hit to my logo image from 
your site is doing me in :) but it's a global switch for the hotlink 
protection to work.

Mary, you were the only one who wrote and said you couldn't see any 
images on the site.  This is bizarre.  Who is your ISP and are you 
using some kind of proxy server?  I'm not sure this would do it, but 
any clues will help me fix the problem.




-- 
Roger Taylor