This what thousands and thousands of visitors to one particular web site I frequent are seeing today. With less than a week to go in the month, these guys have run through their quota of hosting bandwidth with their service provider.

Imagine running out of electric or water service at the end of the month because your demands ran a little high. It's too bad you can't buy carryover minutes in the internet game.

I can understand how this can happen though. My own sites' bandwidth has doubled and then doubled again in recent months. Fortunately I buy in bulk. I can double a few more times before needing to build in more bandwidth.

Note: The image in this post looks a lot like an error when you view it. Let me assure you, it is not an error. You're seeing what an error looks like.