I’ve noticed in the last couple of months that my bandwidth usage has gone through the roof and that is because a lot of people are hotlinking my images from the gallery. If you are going to post images from the gallery UPLOAD THEM TO YOUR OWN SERVER. I understand that not everyone has their own personal server to store images and link to them, but there are tons of free image hosts out there that are very easy to use. This especially goes out to those hotlinking from ONTD and Fan Forum. Those sites get thousands of hits a day and it’s killing my bandwidth. When the bandwidth goes out, the site goes down which means you can’t visit and I can’t update.

Also, for those of you using my images on forums and communities just to post or for icons etc, PLEASE CREDIT THE SITE. I work very hard to maintain the gallery with as many high quality images as possible for you, the visitor. I don’t think it’s too much to ask that SS.Com gets a little credit and a link back.

I don’t mind if people save images and post them on forums or make icons with them. That is part of the reason I work so hard on the site; so that fans of Sebastian have access to the best images and most update info about him to use for their own enjoyment. However, I run this site out of my own pocket, and I would hope that fellow fans of Sebastian would be considerate of that and try to make it as easy as possible for me to keep this site online and running smoothly.

Thank you in advance for your help and understanding concerning this issue.