External links increase my server transfer

[diwit]

Hello.

I have SMF 2.0 RC3 installed on a payment hosting, and my problem is that when users post a link to an image hosted on an external server, the transfer of my server increases, as if it makes a cached copy of the images or something weird.

the problem is that a cheap hosting would allowing me enough monthly transfer to host the forum, but now I am over 100 GB / month transfer, and this is due to this problem, because there are not so many views in the forum pages to reach those transfer rates.

anyone has any idea on how I can fix this?

thanks, greetings

[TheListener]

Who is your host?

Also do you resize the images so they don't take up half a page (an example).

[Oya]

when images are linked they are downloaded to your server to see how big they are

[diwit]

thanks, the forum is hxxp:www.badaspain.com [nonactive]

i don't believe that a simple forum with 2.000 users takes that huge bandwith per month...

when images are linked they are downloaded to your server to see how big they are

is that true?? there is any way to disable that??

regards

[Oya]

they are only linked if they are put in img tags, and that can be changed from admin - features and options - layout - max width/height of posted pictures

[diwit]

they are only linked if they are put in img tags, and that can be changed from admin - features and options - layout - max width/height of posted pictures

but with that settings, the only thing i avoid is users from posting large images, isn't that right??

regards

[Oya]

yes but the only way smf knows its a large image is by downloading it

it cant fix large images if it doesnt download them to know how big it is

but yeah if you turn that off users can post big images