# Never host a file that anyone might want to download

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/never-host-a-file-that-anyone-might-want-to-download/67986>\
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**Created:** [October 21, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/never-host-a-file-that-anyone-might-want-to-download/67986 "2004-10-21T03:00:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/never-host-a-file-that-anyone-might-want-to-download/67986/1 "2004-10-21T03:00:02Z")

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I did, and it ended up using up ALLL of my bandwidth within 12 days. I hosted this video of someone demo-ing the new DS handheld, and I checked my site today and all 15.9 GB’s of my 15GB of bandwidth had been used up by that file. :{ :{ :{. I got a 509 Bandwidth Exceeded error.

Now no one can see my site or anything hosted on it until November. ☹

(The file was only about 10mb)