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[Wowzers]

Ok, I recently finished designing a custom myspace layout. And I was wondering, Will having the images from my server on my myspace use bandwidth from my host?

[Matthew.]

If you hotlink the images from your server then yes they will use your bandwidth, not myspace

If you only have a small amount of bandwidth you could consider using a file host or a free image host to host images instead.

[Wowzers]

I got 5 gigs bandwidth a month for free so i guess that should work my site doesnt bring much traffic i just test websties on it.. thanks!

[The_pro_designer]

Anything downloaded from your site is used bandwidth. A file, an image, anything.. So hotlinked images from your site need to be downloaded into your temporary internet files in order for you to see them..I think.. Witch is space taking from your sites bandwidth..since they are just images you are ok unless you get a great amount of traffic and like thousands of friends! They dont have to redownload the images every time they visit unless they clear all their stuff or have their settings like that so youll be ok..

[kushaaal]

As suggested the images folder should be in web non accessible area to prevent hotlinking. Also I suggest reducing the size of the image by making them progressive, so they consume less bandwidth.