---
title: Data transfer status exceeded
date: "2001-11-01T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1585
description: I received a notice from GeoCities that my website exceeded its 3GB monthly data transfer limit. My site was temporarily disabled due to high traffic, leaving me to wonder what exactly caused such a sudden spike in popularity.
keywords: [geocities, bandwidth limits, data transfer, web traffic, internet history]
---

I wonder what caused this...

> From: civics@geocities.com\
> Subject: Your Data Transfer Status
>
> Congratulations, your website seems to be very popular and has been receiving a large amount of traffic. Our records indicate that you're using more than the allotted amount of data transfer we provide for a free web site, which is 3 gigabytes per month (measured on an hourly basis). That means that during the past few days we had to temporarily turn your site off to keep the bandwidth within this limit.