On 2/29/2012 7:59 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
I believe our own Mark Cassino had linking problems.
He had a great collection of insect macros on line (still does), and
all of a sudden visitors from asia were overwhelming his bandwidth.
Yeah - a site in South Korea put together these really interesting
montages of my photos that ran like a screen saver and faded in and out,
image after image, with a musical background. I thought they were rather
cool but they seemed to stream endlessly - thousands of file
retrievals. Apparently whoever put the script together didn't even have
the images caching - it would just pull an image every few seconds
non-stop, 24-7. Burned through bandwidth like a blowtorch.
This was like 10 years ago and I only had something like 5 gigs of
bandwidth and it just chewed through it. SO, I banned hotlinking for a
while - actually, several years till my host reconfigured and I had to
look at the .htaccess file again.
These days I allow hotlinking it on the static side of the website but
still have it enabled on the blog, not to block hotlinking to images but
to block calls to scripts that should only be called from within the
site - a very weak security measure analogous to putting the hook on a
screen door, but every little bit helps, right?
As for pinterest.com - I put my website into the sources space on the
URL and found a handful of pinned images. I'm surprised - I never even
heard of pintrest before today....
Mark C.
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