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I'd suggest "good morning" as is my optimistic norm, but it's been a Monday so far.
A few days ago, I posted on Amiga.org how the leeches and yandex.ru had basically raped the site of all its bandwidth. Something like 40+ gigabytes as of this morning for the last 28 days...
I killed them all off as of that posting through .htaccess and other means. Unfortunately with normal bandwidth draw, I got an automated message that Amiga.org is currently down for exceeding its bandwidth for the month. I check, and sure as the world, "she's dead Jim".
Right now, I have a call into the host to see what our alternatives are, and if they are willing to be nice and understanding considering that I did try to resolve the problem as soon as I got the initial heads up.
Whether they will, or won't is really up to them, but I'm expecting to need to make some sort of payment to them which -- because of the aforementioned drop in revenues -- I simply don't have at the moment.
We may simply be down for 4 more days. I hope not, but possibly. The web host has traditionally always been really cool and very understanding of such problems. I just hope they'll help out this time, and I'll try to keep a better eye on these leeching buttheads in the future.
Considering all the problems, I may end up banning all of the .ru TLD from accessing the site. A bit extreme, but it would resolve 99% of the spammer / leeching issues.
Wayne
A few days ago, I posted on Amiga.org how the leeches and yandex.ru had basically raped the site of all its bandwidth. Something like 40+ gigabytes as of this morning for the last 28 days...
I killed them all off as of that posting through .htaccess and other means. Unfortunately with normal bandwidth draw, I got an automated message that Amiga.org is currently down for exceeding its bandwidth for the month. I check, and sure as the world, "she's dead Jim".
Right now, I have a call into the host to see what our alternatives are, and if they are willing to be nice and understanding considering that I did try to resolve the problem as soon as I got the initial heads up.
Whether they will, or won't is really up to them, but I'm expecting to need to make some sort of payment to them which -- because of the aforementioned drop in revenues -- I simply don't have at the moment.
We may simply be down for 4 more days. I hope not, but possibly. The web host has traditionally always been really cool and very understanding of such problems. I just hope they'll help out this time, and I'll try to keep a better eye on these leeching buttheads in the future.
Considering all the problems, I may end up banning all of the .ru TLD from accessing the site. A bit extreme, but it would resolve 99% of the spammer / leeching issues.
Wayne
