justjeni — Mon, 12 May 2003 20:18:32 +0000

Thanks, Busy - I did read the thread about hotlinking and protecting grahpics with the .htaccess file. I also bookmarked a link someone had offered that helps you do this - it's a little confusing to me right now, but I'll sit down and see if I can't figure it out. I never planned for anything like this so with the affiliate program and allowing link exchanges to link to my banners etc., it just makes it a bit more challenging, I guess!

Busy — Mon, 12 May 2003 04:21:09 +0000

using your .htaccess file to stop hot linking is the best way to do it, BUT if you have an affiliate program that only offers the code (images load from your server for tracking purposes) then you'll have to be very careful how you set it up (.htaccess) or you'll end up blocking your affiliates.
best way would be to add a folder with the banners etc in the far end of your folder tree and place a blank .htaccess file it in with allow all/deny none so people can still link to the banners and stuff, don't have any folders off this one or it's images will be up for grabs too.

Suzanne — Mon, 12 May 2003 02:41:30 +0000

Email can really add up -- 400+ messages of spam.

Even if you get your mail through Outlook, you can delete it from the server (it's in the options to remove messages from the server).

Search for .htaccess and bandwidth in these forums, I believe there are a number of threads on the topic of blocking hot-linking and also on how to tell (basically you look at your site stats and see if anything is jumping out above normal usage).

justjeni — Mon, 12 May 2003 02:17:20 +0000

417 E-mails sitting in my web mail! Think that did it? I do have a lot of files on my site, but most are small, text files. I deleted all those e-mails and now my site is down.

Tip to all: Don't ever use Globat for a host, they're always going down!

justjeni — Mon, 12 May 2003 01:04:53 +0000

Whew..I didn't think it was bandwidth but just couldn't tell what the heck they meant here. Thanks so much - when you mentioned e-mail, I remembered I haven't cleaned out my web mail for some time (get it in my Outlook and keep forgetting about that web mail!) so I'll go do that, maybe that will help. Hope so and again, thanks so much.

Since this is the graphics forum, and I was thinking on those lines, how would a person find out if someone is linking to their server or not? I've heard of people doing this, but never had reason to do it before!

Suzanne — Mon, 12 May 2003 00:36:29 +0000

Lines 1 and 2: You have too much stuff on the server -- you have 377M, you should have only 300M (or so).

Lines 3 and 4: Your traffic is under your limit, do not worry about bandwidth issues.

Basically, you have a lot of stuff on the server. If you don't have a lot of files, then check for mail that's not been taken off the server and raw log files that haven't been processed and deleted. They will really suck up space quickly.