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No; if it's on flickr, it will not use up your bandwidth, it will use up their bandwidth. So it doesn't somehow get routed through the server or anything? Sweet!

But storage space, BW and CPU time are separate resources. I was asking about the amount of each used by the two ways. I wasn't asking about server load in general.

If I embed a video from Youtube, or hotlink to an image on Flickr, instead of storing the files on the server, what resources and how much of each does that use? Say I have a 1,5mB pic on Flickr, and I hotlink to it on my website. If one user then loads the page, does that use 1,5mB of bandwidth+the BW for loading up the rest of the page? Which solution is more effective in terms of CPU usage (hotlink/embed vs. storing the file on the server)?

Hi! I'm a student from Finland. I think the school I go to is the equivalent of a high school in the US (start at age 16 or 17 and finish at 19 or 20). I have a school course scheduled for later this year that requires me to know HTML and CSS so I went ahead and started learning about them. Then I figured that I might as well put my experimentation on the net, so here I am. We'll see what I come up with. I had a hobby, thaiboxing, but I had to stop because I couldn't afford the gym payments, with driving school and saving up for a car and all that. Other hobbies... I don't know if video games count as a hobby, but I used to be big into those. Lately not so much for some reason. I've got a small army of Warhammer 40K space marines, but I rarely get to play. Sort-of-kind-of photography. I suck at it so much I've actually always deleted the photos I take, but maybe one day. I've also got a photography course at school going on right now. (D3100, in case you're wondering ) I think that's about it. Pleasure to be here.

Helsinki, Finland.