Data Transfer

Well I’m not sure how well this is working out…I keep exceeding my “data transfer” amount since I put the music up. So, if there have been some times when people have tried to get on my site and have been unable to this last week, I apologize. Before last week I didn’t even know there was such a thing as “data transfer” rates and now here I am, getting the site shut down.

Well the good news is they just shut the site down for an hour when it happens and then send me a nasty letter telling me I should upgrade my site. I’m not sure what I want to do about it. I could just put up less music, like just one song a week or something. Or I could spend the nine dollars a month, have my own domain name and there would probably be no “data transfer” problems.

I’m not really sure I want the added pressure of writing under a financial burden. I try and update the site at least one a week but if I were spending $100 a year on it I would probably feel obligated to get my moneys worth. Would I start forcing myself to write or maybe start self-censuring?

What attracted me to Yahoo in the first place is the fact that it was all free. I was able to learn HTML (limited though it may be) and have a place where I could post some of my writing. I’d have never thought of it, nor would I have started it, if there were a cost involved.

On the other hand, I like being able to put up some of the things I’ve been working on in the studio. What’s the point of recording if it’s just going to stay in my basement? I like being able to tell friends that they can download something that I just finished recording and they don’t have to wait for me to send them a CD.

Now I have some friends who put their music on MP3.com and then just linked it back to their home page. This sounds like a good idea but I have spent a considerable amount of time at MP3.com and for the life of me I don’t understand how that site works. It is, in my mind, one of the most confusing sites I’ve ever been to. So if anyone who reads these pages has the slightest idea of how I could post my music there please let me know. I have spent all the time I’m going to spend at that site.

I think the idea of just posting one different song each week might be the way to go. If I posted a different song each week that could last for quite a while I think. Even if I didn’t record anything new. I could always post requests as well...

I think that’s what I’ll do for now. If I keep getting these “exceeded data transfer” letters from Yahoo then maybe I’ll try something else, like throwing some money at them.

The Prairie Dogs have been doing a lot of recording lately and I’ve just started mixing down some of the first stuff we did. Perhaps next week I’ll get one of those up on the site.

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