How To Fix The Bandwidth Limit on Blogger

OK, as most of you may have noticed, there were messages all over the site on my last template that said, "bandwidth exceeded". Then of course it said to upgrade to Photobucket Pro. Or it's going to look something like this....



The most common reason this happens is that most image hosting accounts have a one month limit on bandwidth. Once you exceed that limit, every person that has a simular template as you may see an ugly mess like in the picture above. If you like the template you have, then you should immediately address the issue once you see it. If not, you can change the template, but you might have the same problem once the end of the following month comes around with the new one.

You're likely never going to find out exactly how much bandwidth your allowed in a month, so there are other free hosting sites to use. Sometimes, the bandwidth can be exceeded depending on how many images you upload to your entries over a period of time.

Here's some other signs of possible bandwidth limits exceeding on your site.....

1. A white blank template background can show up without seeing your normal page.
2. A message that comes up saying something like, "This page has been aborted" and then it goes to a seperate page where the site cannot be found. Many times, you can refresh the page and it will work. But as the month goes on, it can become like that the entire time. That happened to me on a Notepad template I had before.
3. Error messages on your page or blank pictures where they would normally be.
4. A site can also become completely non-accessible to anyone that has exceeded the bandwidth on their page. I had this happen to me twice with two different templates, but this doesn't happen often.

As some of you know that have followed me since I started on Blogger, I've went through a few templates on here. I noticed that everytime I had bandwidth issues, it was at the end of each month. So after doing a little searching instead of clogging up the Google Groups section at the end of each month, I found out why. If you want to keep the template and fix the problem, here are the things I suggest you do.....

1. Download your template and upload it again. You may get lucky and it refreshes your site to it's original look. If not.....

2. Download your template, then use a free image hosting site(like Photo Bucket for example which is what I use) to post your site images. Notice I said site images. And you have to have a little experience in downloading images. You can right-click some of the site images into your file, then upload them to your hosting account.

Another thing you could do is look very closely at your HTML code of your template to find images that end in .jpg, .png., etc. Some will have a URL that has "http://tinyurl" in it's address, too(which I had on mine). You can hit Control + F then find "http://tinyurl" in order to locate any with that same URL. If you're not familar with HTML coding, then I would strongly suggest asking someone who is to avoid further damage to your template. I'll repeat that again, do NOT mess with your HTML code if you don't know anything about it. Always ask someone who knows because you could do more harm than good and have a bigger mess on your hands.

3. You'll need to scroll down to find every single image(including buttons) in your HTML code if that's what you choose to do(which is what I did). Once you find your first image URL, then open up a seperate window and save the image once it appears on your page. Repeat this for all images on your template, then immediately upload them on your own hosting page. Then replace the old images on your template with the newly downloaded ones on your hosting page. And remember to always download your template before doing any of this. Just to be safe, I would reload the downloaded template file and save the template once you're done uploading your site images.

Once you move all of your image files to your hosting site, bandwidth issues shouldn't be a problem any longer once you put them into your template. I do know a free account with Photo Bucket allows you 25GB a month for images, and a Pro Account has no limit. Google Pages is another service you can use as well. Just remember that if you switch templates without hosting the images on a different page, you could see that mess on your new template at the end of the following month, too.

I highly suggest that if you have simular images showing up on your page such as the picture above that you upload them from your hosting site from now on. Just be sure to upload any image to your hosting site before putting them on Blogger.

You might get lucky that the template designer may let you know where they're hosting their images at, too. If not, then follow these steps above or change your template altogether.

I used my PayPal account to cover my Pro account for Photo Bucket, and it's good for a year. I'll be happy to help anyone with bandwidth issues as well as hosting images for you on my own Photo Bucket page if need be since I have no bandwidth limit on there.

Again, it usually happens at the end of the month where you're likely to see bandwidth trouble across Blogger sites, so this is nothing unusual at this time. Just ask for help from someone or refer back to this entry if you run into any problems.

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