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If you looking to quick way to avoid high local bandwidth charges or manage high traffic sites more efficiently try add this into your mod_rewrite block in your .htaccess file.

	# High bandwidth redirect
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^CoralWebPrx
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} digg\.com [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} blogspot\.com [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} reddit\.com [NC,OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} slashdot\.org
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://wwwa.domainname.com/$1 [R,L]

Where http://wwwa.domainname.com is an Internationally hosted server. Don’t forget to setup a robots.txt file on this server to prevent Google duplicate content penalties.

# robots.txt for http://wwwa.domainname.com
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*

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