mindseye said:Wow. You have got a lot to learn about hosting a website. First of all, as a host, you have the ability to prevent people from hotlinking to pictures and multimedia -- if you're not a coder, get someone who is to show you how. You left your door wide open and are bitching because someone walked through it.
Second of all, if folks from LPSG can 'steal your bandwidth', then the spiders at Google and MSN and Yahoo may be doing it as well as they crawl the web and index your site. And if your videos are linked over Google, they'll find a much bigger audience than they would over LPSG.
Do your homework, and learn how to secure your site. 19 gigs of bandwidth is a cheap, cheap price to pay for this lesson.
Sir,
You are right I do have a great deal to learn about hosting a website, thankyou for the link. I will look and try and learn how to prevent this from happening again.
I can assure you it is not a pleasant feeling to be made to feel like the criminal in this sorry episode.
All I have ever wanted was to make a free place for people of a like mind to visit and share things, a tiny little community that is free where guys can find stuff they like. I am not making money, I am not a seasoned webmaster, just someone who is trying to provide something for free.
It seems that I have a very steep learning curve ahead of me, and I thank you for your help in giving me the link.