Forum down , bandwidth limit , early finish monthly quota
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2025 8:06 am
First of all Thank You to Admin and donors for keeping the forum alive past 10 years despite the drop in fresh posts.
1) I think the web host allocated data quota finish too early within 5 days in August due to non-human traffic from overseas unrelated to astro hobby.
Done by bots harvesting copyright-free information to train AI model. Clue is high viewcount zero reply.
2) I suggest to turn off the image upload function and do massive spring cleaning targeted delete to lighten the data consumption load.
Some of the hosted images dating years back may have sentimental value or genuine purpose to sell astro equipment , to delete the photo without consent may seem harsh but it doesn't make a difference if the forum is inaccessible on most weeks of the month.
3) The images I post on this forum are hosted externally on www.imgur.com which doesn't burden the web hosting service of Singastro forum.
1) I think the web host allocated data quota finish too early within 5 days in August due to non-human traffic from overseas unrelated to astro hobby.
Done by bots harvesting copyright-free information to train AI model. Clue is high viewcount zero reply.
2) I suggest to turn off the image upload function and do massive spring cleaning targeted delete to lighten the data consumption load.
Some of the hosted images dating years back may have sentimental value or genuine purpose to sell astro equipment , to delete the photo without consent may seem harsh but it doesn't make a difference if the forum is inaccessible on most weeks of the month.
3) The images I post on this forum are hosted externally on www.imgur.com which doesn't burden the web hosting service of Singastro forum.