Damn! I was hotlinked by a site BIGGER than thehun... they crashed my server (pic)
 

Server crashed just as I sat down at my comp today, turns out about 10 pics from one of my galleries was link hottened by a Chinese forum. They're even bigger than thehun...

http://media.sensationcontent.com/rowan/graph.png

The graphs do not look pretty, my server was pushing 10Mbps before it turned up its toes and died. It was only responding to about 5% of pings with round-trip-times of 30 seconds or greater.

http://media.sensationcontent.com/ro...inesecrash.gif

I've been hotlinked before, but it's never crashed my server. Who would have thought that hotlinking a meg's worth of pics could do it? :disgust

Bigger than the Hun? Post the url so I can go spam some links!! :1orglaugh

it's all about the .htaccess :(

how much money did you make?

I think thats it on the top chart

Harmon: Chinese surfers.

pornstar2pac: Chinese surfers.

:winkwink:

BTW hotlinking doesn't really bother me, not until now anyway. I usually have plenty of transfer available and I enjoy fucking around with renaming images and sending them back some 'special' ones. It's never crashed a server before...

they don't have money?, only chop sticks?

10mbps crashed your servers?

You have a shitty server

pff thats cool :)
btw pornstart2pac...
you killed me.. LOL they only have chopsticks hehe

Nah, there's another prob too, for some reason Apache is not properly recognising a site, instead it's pointing the surfers at another... the log is filled with 404s which execute a script to figure out what to do with the surfer. That's probably why it crashed.

That sucks... wow.

.htaccess is your friend.. Chinese hotlinkers really suck, I remember cutting down at least 2mbit/mo when I finally got my htaccess right. Bastards =/

If the traffic is causing a script to run, then that might explain it crashing

anyone got some good suggestions for .htaccess?

so would you like a whois?

Registrant:
city
203 sun st,
pasadena, ca 23221
US

Domain name: AISEX.COM

Administrative Contact:
Lin, michael Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by Whois Source
203 sun st,
pasadena, ca 23221
US
5513923
Technical Contact:
Lin, michael Whois Privacy and Spam Prevention by Whois Source
203 sun st,
pasadena, ca 23221
US
5513923


Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 11-Nov-2003.
Record expires on 19-Jul-2007.
Record created on 19-Jul-1999.

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.SERVERMATRIX.COM 216.185.111.10
NS2.SERVERMATRIX.COM 69.56.222.10


Domain status: ACTIVE

Pasadena, California ?

Servermatrix.com?

yeah thems chinks!

LOL

:1orglaugh

Time to figure out a way to cash in on them Chinese people? =)

I'm going to add you to my "dont piss this guy off list".

Right Away!

LOL :1orglaugh

anyway, chinese traffic is a reall bummer :(

He said it was a chinese forum, not that it was hosted in china.....

so, wouldn't you call their host and bitch about it?

Try loading www.aisex.com , let me know what it says

I know the page is in chink, but that doesn't give them a right to burn your bandwidth!

No, I would call the board owner and ask him to remove the hotlink.

Even 4 million red x's a day use a lot of processor.We finally blocked them at the router.AISEX are the worst bunch of freeloaders i've seen.

can't you just do a deny on aisex.com and not respond to their requests at all?

allow from all
deny from .aisex.com

:p

call the owner asap. fuck that.

That works on IPs and hostnames, which won't block hotlinkers... they come from multiple hosts.

A deny sends back a 403 response anyway, may as well add a couple of hundred more bytes and make it a cute pic.