6GB/month? Thats not much. You should look into a new provider. I’ve had great experience with LunarPages for a couple of projects. (I hope I dont get flagged for spam now heh)

I don’t wish to be pedantic… but… surely your photo’s measure in the KB range rather than the MB one? :-P

Take a look at HostNexus… I’ve got their Corporate plan at $25 a month… 20 gigabytes of bandwidth.

You don’t mean down for good, though, do you?

no!! I love your site! I hope you find a way to keep it up, if only for my selfish personal satisfaction.

Adam -

http://www.activewebhosting.com . . . unlimted EVERYTHING for only $10 a month. The only down fall is that anything CGI/PHP has to go on a cgi server . . . so this page would look like:
http://cgi.adampolselli.com/archives/2004/08/05/crispy_rose.php

thats my 2 cents for the day.

I really like your flower macros. You garden a lot?

Hey, listen. You have a nice site (almost great I think ;-)) and you are the victim of your success… So don’t blame yourself dude !
Anyway, I hope you’ll even satisfy all of us with your goodish photos and so on!
Thanks for that indeed.

Maybe we could setup some sort of mirror network to help with the load? I’m not even sure how we’d do that but it certainly would be wortht he work to keep your site going!!

primoshock: You’re being lied to. There is no such thing as “unlimited” hosting. Trust me, there is always a limit, and I sure don’t trust companies who lie to their customers in what they offer.

My host, VenturesOnline (now Data393), will give you 20 GB of bandwidth for $20/month, so it might be time to upgrade your hosting plan. I’ve been very happy with them and have amazing uptime.

Oh, and why not accept donations through PayPal? Sounds like you have plenty of loyal visitors who would be willing to support you!

That damn CSS Vault! :-P

6GB isn’t that much.

What program are you using to optimize your images? With good ones, you should be able to cut your photos down by a lot.

Adam, if you need some temporary storage for your images let me know – I have a couple of hundred gb of bandwidth essentially doing nothing. ;)

Awesome site! It’s a great inspiration! I especially appreciate all the tutorials and the “Get the Look” section! I’m a professional web designer myself, and I could definitely make use of your colour guides and tutorials! Keep up the good work!

Hey, Adam. Have you ever thought of, perhaps, gzipping your files and making them static pages? That would bring down transfer size a noticable amount, I think.

Great photo, by the way.

Hm… for some reason I was thinking that 6GBs was a lot. I guess not. The thing is, I don’t pay for hosting because of a connection I have, so it’s hard to complain when I’m saving myself about a couple hundred bucks a year.

Jonathon… haha, thanks for pointing out my error! I definitely meant KBs, not MBs. :)

Cory… no, I don’t mean down for good. Just for the month, and hopefully not even that long.

Zelnox… actually, I don’t garden at all. A majority of the flowers in my shots are either flowers that my mother planted outside, or flowers that she has around the house.

Tom… I simply use Photoshop’s “Save for Web” feature. It’s always done a pretty good job of cutting down the file size. I suppose I could sacrifice some quality, but I’d rather not.

Thanks, everyone, for willing to chip in and help out. I appreciate it more than you all know, and it has really shown me that I have some of the greatest friends and readers on the web! I just might take a couple of you up on your offers until I can get this all ironed out.

I can probably help ya out too, ive got hundreds of gigs of bandwidth doing nothing aswell. Let me know.

I had the same problem — you might want to host with ithium.net — his main design is being updated now, so if his contact page hasn’t been updated I can supply the address. He teaches PHP techniques (and I cover the HTML/CSS) on Codingforums.com as Krycek… my client sites were being hit for large charges, as well as my own — so he started a non-profit hosting site a couple years ago to house developers. If you are a not-for-profit, you get free hosting — everyone else gets plans that are listed there — but he will add or remove stuff for you as needed. I pay 100 bucks a year for 1gig of space and 25+gigs of transfer. I’ve got 50 sites under him, and numerous of our moderators and advisors on codingforums and dynamicdrive host with him. Uses Plesk as the interface.

Otherwise, I’ve seen people swear by lunarpages.com, but you won’t get to deal with a fellow developer. Uses CPanel as the interface.

I too used the save for web, and I won’t sacrifice the quality:) I’ve found that Fireworks does compress much smaller with the same quality. I still use photoshop (who wouldn’t?) as my main photo-editing/design tool, but I bring it over to Fireworks for the jpg/gif/png export (it also handles 32bit png, as photoshop CS still does not). Might be something to look into, you can probably dump 10-25% of that size down per photo, or keep it the same with higher quality. Hey, I’m an old print designer, turned web designer, turned creative director… I won’t drop my quality just for a 56kb user.

You might be able to host through our client IOC for free. We have a resiporscity situation with them.
Let’s talk about it.
Mom

You should be happy, 6 GB a month means you really have a lot of visitors who appreciate your site and come back :^)

For the hosting, I saw an ad related to http://www.1and1.com hosting on http://www.pirated-sites.com/ . It’s quite cheap (from 5$ a month to 29$ a month, but the 5$ one comes with a 25 GB/month traffic and 500 MB of space) and the guys at Pirated Sites are really happy with the services.

Anyway, great photos!