Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger
Photobucket is good, you can just drag and drop your pics straight into it to upload.
unless you post lots and exceed your bandwidth, and then you get this showing instead of the photos , until you pay up or the start of a new month .



I've always been pretty popular...so what does this mean?

This means that you've hit your bandwidth cap for linked out images this month.
When we talk about bandwidth, we're speaking of the measure of total data transferred in a period of one month. Free users are limited to 10 GB of bandwidth per month. Plus users have unlimited bandwidth.
Bandwidth consumption is calculated by the amount of data that is transferred from your account to other sites across the web. The size of the image/video will increase the amount of bandwidth you are using when linking them out to other sites. For example:
The average photo file size on Photobucket is ~2 MB. Lets say you link out 100 photos, each 2 MB in size each, to your blog/website/ebay listing/etc. 100 images at 2 MB each means that you are linking out a total of 200 MB in data. If each of those images were viewed 50 times a piece, that would equal 10,000 MB of bandwidth used, thus hitting the 10 GB cap (10,000 MB = 10 GB). Similarly, If you linked out only one photo at a file size of 2 MB, it'd need to be viewed 5,000 times to reach your 10 GB bandwidth cap.
Bandwidth is only taken into account for linked out images.