It's not all that busy, there aren't thousands of hits per second to worry about. However, when there's somebody sitting at home with a cable modem pulling files down at 150 KB/s, this puts a strain on the whole network that should not be eminating from this server. I'll have clients screaming that their file transfers are too slow, which is not a good thing.

I want to keep the site as open as possible for every Xterra owner. If you have a personal web page with pics of your truck, that kind of thing, this is what my server is here for. Like I said I like helping out other Xterra owners, this is one way I can.

To give you a better example, somebody posted that taco_wreck.wmv video, links propagated to every corner of the internet like you wouldn't believe. I'm not willing to sit here hosting crash videos for some rice burner forum, but I left it up anyways (the internet's attention span, as I've noticed, is about 3 days). Those 3 days were really heavy and potentially slowed down traffic to Xterra pics/vids.

There are ways around this, the ISAPI script being one of them. The other would be to rename a highly-linked file (which would quickly thwart outside links) and just recreate the shortcut in the appropriate thread here for us Xterra folk to continue downloading it.

Jens