How to Save on Blog and Website Bandwidth Bills
Posted on June 18, 2007, under Development, How To, Tools and Services, Web Hosting.
Plagued by high bandwidth bills for your blog or website? There are multiple solutions out there that can drastically reduce the amount you shell out every month.
Outsource your Blog Hosting:
There are many free blog hosting services out there, Blogger and WordPress being the most popular. If you do not mind not having complete control of your blog, then these are cheap solutions for blog hosting.
Outsource Image Hosting:
Images can lead to large bandwidth bills, especially if you have a lot of them or large images. There are many cheap or free ways to host images or other media files. Flickr is probably the most obvious choice, there is even a nice WordPress plug in. Additionally Amazon Simple Storage Service is a great, inexpensive service for any type of media files you may have.
Optimize Templates and HTML Code:
With HTML there is a lot of white space that adds up over time. Javascript, CSS, and HTML files are plagued with extra whitespace characters in between tags. I have written in the past about how to Optimize Wordpress and HTML templates, Compressing your JavaScript, and Compressing your CSS files. All good practices that will result in lower bandwidth charges over time.
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