It's a good point, I really probably should only upload archived alert events. I am recording 24/7/365, will be a total of 14 cams at 2.1-4.3 MP each. Has been a great project to put together, especially as I kinda enjoy "optimizing by fiddling". It's early days, and I have a lot of fiddling left to do to get everything optimized.
Didn't know that about the hardware, thanks for bringing it up Grant H. I purchased my own modem and for a router am running DD-WRT on a rooted... something, I forget at the moment. The only thing I would willingly switch to would be something I can root and install Open-WRT on, being forced to use specific equipment is not appealing.
Sounds like the best route for me is to fire up DDNS and just archive the selected events. 00tec, would CC pitch a fit over that?