How much did my “White Cars” blog post cost me? And shall I do some more?
As it’s Friday I thought the timing would be right for a bit of light hearted fun - there is also a bit of a lesson in here too 
My second “white cars” blog post was really successful, so much so that some thief stole it, hotlinked to my images, submitted it to Digg and got a ton of traffic.
But, as the post had over 50 reasonably high quality images it didn’t half make a dent on my bandwidth. So much so that I ran well over my agreed allowance with my hosting company and was left with a bill to pay that was over my normal monthly amount.
But by how much? The traffic spiked over a period of about 4 or 5 days then returned to normal. So how much do you think that spike cost me? I’ll reveal the answer next week.
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I now have another dilemma. The thing is that I have another “white car” post almost ready to go, and this one has over 100 pictures. And before anyone says it, I know that I have an unhealthy obsession with white cars - I just can’t help it.
So what should I do? Write another “white car” blog post and just suffer the consequences in terms of traffic and bandwidth? One thing I have learned to do, is to split the post, so that I only display 3 or 4 pictures on my homepage and only display the rest when the user clicks through to the article. Or should I maybe create a whole new website devoted to white cars? I’ve been toying with that idea actually as I know the interest is there, I would probably make it interactive too and encourage user content (now watch, someone will do it). Problem is I don’t think I have the time to devote to a new project like that, especially as I don’t think it will be a big money-maker, more of a hobby.
Anybody have any thoughts?
What I’m listening to right now: Maskerade – “Computer Love”
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How much did my “White Cars” blog post cost me? And shall I do some more?
Original post by Kieron