[UK-CONTEST] BERU 2005 results

[Dave Sergeant]

On 5 Jul 2005 at 19:55, Bob Whelan wrote:

(copied to the reflector so others know why they cannot access it..)

> The website has a new alias it is  www.beru.org.uk

The BTYahoo Geocities webspace where your site is hosted has two 
major problems. The most significant is that the traffic is limited 
to just a few Mb per hour (they quote what sounds a reasonable 
monthly traffic but it is calculated hourly and once exceeded access 
is blocked until the end of that hour). When I tried to access it I 
got half of the images then it exceeded the limit and told me in no 
uncertain terms when I tried to access the full results. The second 
problem is that Geocities insert adverts in the page, but in my case 
they are conveniently filtered by the large 'hosts' file I have for 
that purpose. Another issue is that the URL contains the users email 
address, which could be a spam issue.

Bob, depending on the BTInternet package you have you might 
investigate if you have some of the original BTInternet webspace 
(http://www.btinternet.com/~username). This is not advertised as 
being available for new customers but as far as I know is in fact 
still available - my site and the Bracknell ARC site is there. This 
has none of the Geocities problems, though its ftp server is somewhat 
flakey at times.

Of course compressing some of the images to reduce their size would 
also help a bit.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com