A comment on hotlinking

It’s happened again… Yesterday there was a major surge in my bandwidth usage, this time because of a brazillion people all hotlinking to my Happysad cartoons from stumbleupon.com. Now don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of me and my cartoons getting so much attention from all over the world, but I don’t want to upgrade my hosting plan every single month. This stuff costs money, and I’m still giving away Happysad for free! So anyway, after Myspace, I had to block off Stumbleupon as well.

To get things straight: YES, it is still ok to use my cartoons elsewhere, but please have the courtesy of hosting them somewhere else. Thank you!

Jeroen