san00b
No.1 Admin & Founder
Right, so the last one left a ton of questions. I jumped the gun on that announcement, thinking that Xenforo natively supports external sources for avatars.
It doesn't :D.
The Problem
On the old forums, we never allowed users to upload their own avatars due to bandwidth limitation. This time, since the option wasn't there, it was overlooked. We didn't have an issue with it until this month.
That's was us on Monday. We were well over our bandwidth limit, and I was getting a flood of emails from our host regarding it. Tracing the issue, its caused by all the avatars we host. Avatars by themselves generated, on average, 1GB/day of traffic.
I ordered a boatload more bandwidth allocation for our website, but even after that, we're still stuck with only 8GB left for the rest of the month. More bandwidth alone isn't going to cut it.
The Fix
As of Friday/Saturday, we will be deleting all avatars hosted on our website. If you wish to keep an avatar, you will have to register an account through Gravatar. It's easy to set up, and only takes a minute.
This isn't an ideal solution, but it is needed. We'll keep looking into alternate solutions, but for the time being, this is the only option.
Avatars will be deleted ~3AM GMT, Saturday October 22nd.
It doesn't :D.
The Problem
On the old forums, we never allowed users to upload their own avatars due to bandwidth limitation. This time, since the option wasn't there, it was overlooked. We didn't have an issue with it until this month.
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That's was us on Monday. We were well over our bandwidth limit, and I was getting a flood of emails from our host regarding it. Tracing the issue, its caused by all the avatars we host. Avatars by themselves generated, on average, 1GB/day of traffic.
I ordered a boatload more bandwidth allocation for our website, but even after that, we're still stuck with only 8GB left for the rest of the month. More bandwidth alone isn't going to cut it.
The Fix
As of Friday/Saturday, we will be deleting all avatars hosted on our website. If you wish to keep an avatar, you will have to register an account through Gravatar. It's easy to set up, and only takes a minute.
This isn't an ideal solution, but it is needed. We'll keep looking into alternate solutions, but for the time being, this is the only option.
Avatars will be deleted ~3AM GMT, Saturday October 22nd.
