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[Justin]

Do off site avatars suck up more bandwidth than uploaded ones? Not uploading by URL but Off Site Liked avatars. Thanks

 

[CyberFreak]

Off site linked avatars take up no bandwidth (on your side). Only images hosted on your server use up your bandwidth. Your avatar here for example is not using up any of our bandwidth. Using one of our gallery ones will though as they are on our server.

 

[Kino]

Good question Justin! I was wondering the same thing. Thanks Fowler!

 

[Justin]

Yeah, thanks Fowler 🙂

 

[Cosmic]

But it also sucks up Imageshack's bandwidth! :lol:

I guess it also does not take up disk space either. That's why using an image host is much better, in my opinion.

 

[CyberFreak]

The problem with external image hosts are that you site might be up but if the image host goes down, it makes a mess. If you host them on your hosting account, if your site is up then your images will show (aslong as you don't delete them of course but that goes for image hosts as well though)