For contents of my homepage, www.dswkim.org, I change regularly names of directorie and files for the following 2 reasons.

First, as the section grows, merges, is merged or is removed, renaming main html and associated files becomes essential. That's the obvious reason.

Second reason for that is; as I have my homepage for over 11 years already, many have visited my site and linked my pictures and graphics contents to their sites, and because of that the network traffic of my site on my hosting company increases which doesn't represent purely on the number of visits to my homepage.

I don't mind for inaccuate statistics of bandwidth traffic, but do mind for paying extra money to the hosting company for over the limit traffic I've signed up for, as those are not my actual network traffic.

So by renaming directories and files on my homepage regularly, I can cut the links from other sites to mine, which will help showing true traffic to my homepage.

I used to keep a good collection of graphics collected over the internet on my "Images" section, and many linked their site to my contents, which increased the traffic dramatically. Regularly, I change the directory name from "Images" to "Image" to "Img", and within a week after changing that directory name, I see a dramatic decrease of network traffic to the directory.

As I don't change directory names under Images, once the linkers find out the trick, they can fix their links easily. I guess that's why the network traffic goes up again within several months.

Anyway about a week ago, I removed lots of various images sub directories under Images due to the storage issues, and the network traffic gets lower again. But this time, I started getting emails from a few net friends that they can't find certain images from my website and they ask me to put it back for them.

Although I've said I would put it back later on once the storage issue has been solved, I'll probably not gonna upload it again, to keep my website clean.

(June 14, 2005)

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