Calling all geeksters. My hard to miss avatar is the bright red Macaw Parrot eye (we sell exotic bird supplies – it’s a branding thing) 

The image for the avatar is 66kb. SME is the only place that I know of where the URL linked as opposed to LinkedIn or Twitter where they host the avatar image on their servers. 

Bypassing a long convoluted story of support tickets with our eCommerce host, some time in the first week of December, that 66kb avatar image file was credited with 24 gb of bandwidth in less than 30 days. If you do the math, that little avatar needed about 360,000 hits to use 24gb. 
SME is the only place I know of where it was hotlinked. I have since moved the image to a much underused server so I don’t blow my hosting budget (while breaking all other possible hotlinks)  but I’m trying to figure out if SME get’s THAT much traffic? 
Any thoughts would be appreciated

@Jules Webb - thank you for the suggestion. Couple of reasons – when I’m feeling hormonal I’ll change my profile pic as many as six times a day on sites like LinkedIn to go with my mood. I keep 5 – 10,000 images that I manage with Picassa on all my desk tops and another 30,000 plus on my servers thus it’s easier for me to make raw changes via uploads (which I do often) or URL changes on the fly than adding an additional layer of software – old guy doing it old school

@Jules Webb thank you for the recommendations

Our goal is to determine how a 66kb image used 24gb of bandwidth in less than 30 days – that represents 360,000 hits and I want to know where all the love has been coming from. We have almost 400,000 back links to our website so why one jpg would attract so many back links that the one destination url uses as much bandwidth as the rest of our busy eCommerce site is quite perplexing. Especially because that jpg has been on the server for 4 year but only started bleeding bandwidth sometime around the week of 12/10/2012

As for drop box, please realize we’ve been “in the cloud” since 2002 and at one time lorded over more than 80 domains with somewhere around 50 producing Adsense revenue.
One thing we learned along the way was how to get unlmited cloud storage for less than 25% the cost of dropbox with unlimited users via good old fashion free FTP programs like Filezilla and Webdrive
I’m also evangelical about Google docs which is cloud storage at it’s best with unlimited sharing and commenting - all for free

@mitch-rezman

I’d recommend what @juleswebb said: gravatar. Since your av here hasn’t changed, I’d at least use it for the clubs.

To be honest, I didn’t know there was even another option!