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by nine_k
1263 days ago
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This also has the natural consequence of limiting the bandwidth spent serving third-party hotlinked downloads. But the expense of the bandwidth is the primary problem with hotlinking, AFAICT from the article. I could imagine two network interfaces, or two LBs, one internal and unmetered, another external, which serves a particular amount of megabytes per day, and throttles connections accordingly. Maybe even add some HTTP header, like X-bandwidth-limit: "Dear hotlinkers, I'm not going to spend more than $5 / mo on serving you; host your own copy." |
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