Six Flags Magic Mountain Pictures
The Six Flags Magic Mountain Photo Gallery is now online. Like I said before a few of the pictures are less than perfect. I waited until late in the day to get pics and some are very dark looking. Overall I’m happy with what I got and you should be too.
Also you may have noticed ads appearing on the site over the last few days. I know, I know - don’t say it. Here’s the deal: You guys took my bandwidth, chewed it up, spit it out, peed on it, kicked it twice, mocked it, threw it back in my face and stomped off like king of the world. I’m not complaining, the stuff is here for the taking. The whole point of this site is to share. One of the things I’m most proud to share and make available are the videos. They’re also the bane of many sites. Most sites that aren’t on a school server or similar unlimited free service get eaten alive or are pay to play. I want to avoid both and will. I have some ideas for the future but they aren’t ready to be implimented yet so the ads are a quick band-aid to remedy the problem. Don’t worry, they’ll always be free - in fact if things go as planned, I’ll be able to offer a lot more at a time in the future. But that is later. Right now I’m looking at a ton of visitors grabbing these videos. Let me throw some numbers out at you. I put the Superman video online on April 18th. Here we are less than one month later and it’s been downloaded more than 2000 times! Do the math - 11MB x more than 2000 downloads = mucho bandwidth consumption. That doesn’t include the smaller version of that video or either version of the other 4 videos currently available. To put it bluntly about 75 to 80 gigs of bandwidth was used in the last 3 weeks. That sort of thing happens for free very rarely without something having to be done to compensate. The site costs money. The more popular it gets, the more money it costs. Sadly it’s the way life works. If the ads are that great of an annoyance (I’ve done everything possible to reduce that annoyance) then I apologize but if you want the videos, the ads will have to stay for now. I got to recoup something. So for the summer, bear with this little “fix” and keep enjoying those videos (and the photos, of course - but they don’t comsume nearly as much of the site’s resources and get viewed way more) because we got plenty more coming. Look for the Busch Gardens Williamsburg photo gallery to go online next, with Six Flags America and Knoebel’s shortly behind.
