My site is hosted by an outfit called Apollo Hosting, and they seem to do a pretty decent job. I really don't know what platform they are on, and I doubt I can put a program out there. I've never thought about setting up a permanent IP address with my cable company and just hosting my site myself - I know that the cable folks charge more for this but it might not be more than paying for ISP service and web hosting, like I do now.
Haven't looked into this, but I was thinking I could set up a custom 403 error message that would just shoot a jpg over to the hot linker that would refer them to my site (after all, I _want_ traffic.) But I haven't fiddled around with that yet.
- MCC
At 02:15 PM 3/30/2004 -0500, Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
I take it you're on a MS platform? Do you program?
You might consider accessing images ONLY via a program that spits them to the end user. It takes more CPU time but does secure them.
The program could also, when it sees referencing URL that's NOT either the current site, spit out an image copyright statement and a BILL for use of the image. Perhaps even a replacement image that states the developer's copyright violation.
After all, you're shooting for your livelihood.
Collin
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