annie

In other words, it would be hard to spot the difference between a site made by valueweb, and a site made by the customer using the supplied software

Hmmm, is it possible that the webdesign deals they offer uses that same software you mentioned?

I'll have a look at that. BUT, I'm starting to think it's a matter of them creating the sites for the customers. 199 for 3 pages. They're using a template based thingy, but probably custom create the graphics used for the frame set. The underlying pages are nothing special, but some of the frame sets are pretty good.

Now I found another such line: <!--Web Designer -- Steven Mayton 2000 --> The site looks like it's database driven. This is an example of the structure: pages/1/page1.html?refresh=1073407207598 And this one: <!--Web Designer -- Lynwood H. Moore Jr. -- 06212001 --> So far all the sites have been on valueweb or netsol

I found this on a website: <!--Web Designer -- Aaron B. Case -- Jan 2000 --> And when I checked, I found several more websites on the same IP address with that line and the same site structure. I'm just wondering if it's some kind of software? The website is brand new, so the line with the date is obviously from something that's way older than the site. Oh, and this is from a valueweb site. I noticed that they had a deal where they'd design a website for 199. Maybe that's what this is? A bunch of templates with some choices, and then they just shuffle the content on to that? Makes me think I should do something like that, maybe start a company with a friend or something...

I used to send out newsletters to a big list via mailman. Too much stress!

At the same time, wouldn't it make sense to have a really big bandwidth site on its own account? Because a reseller account really shines with plenty of small sites.

Found an interesting discussion about this issue: h*tp://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=248330&highlight=slashdotted Wow, found this in that thread: ---- As soon as I start getting customers that are liable to be slashdotted/farked/whatevered... I might set up a separate server just for that. As soon as the onslaught comes, dump a static version of the site onto the the dedicated with a special "Hostedby:" bar on top with some ads. Then replace the index file with a redirect. Write that into our AUP and the default alternative for those events. If they would rather not have that happen, then their site can be suspended, or they can move to another host, and wait for the DNS resolution... ---- Something for TCH?

I do some of what's asked for, but this time I think I'll recommend a friend instead. She's been working on some high profile websites, including this one: h*tp://www.christianingebrigtsen.com/ She lives and works in Oslo, Norway.

Also, if hotlink protection is enabled, you can only see a picture WITH the domain name, not with the IP number. That didn't seem to be the issue here, but for someone else watching this thread later, I thought I'd chime in... I had to add the IP number in the appropriate window in cpanel while my domain was propagating, and add any other site I wanted my images to show up on.

They're there when you surf with IE? Sounds like you've got spamware on your computer. Run a spybot search and destroy program. Ad Aware is one, and there are others. The others here will be able to direct you. I use Mozilla Firefox and basically don't have to worry about it...

I've got several versions of that script and other useful log backup scripts on my website. Click on the image: :heart

Search for your domain name only, and remove the www. Plenty of links and mentions!

I've run into that before. What I do when I don't find any links to a page, is that I search for the site name, like this: squort.com Google then asks me how I want to procede, and I click on results that contain that term. Google then presents me with lots of hits, and a slightly modified search term: "squort.+com" You've got a link from Rush Limbaugh?

Well, in the past things were slightly different, and that's why I posted this. Because the rumors still persist. Rumors that are no longer accurate. It's a throwback to the time where most sites were on dedicated IP addresses. The first year or two my site was on it's own IP address, and the IP address had a big effect on how search engines saw your site in the past. As shared virtual hosting has become the norm, the search engines have adapted.

I've seen people ask if there's anything they should do when they change hosting (and hence IP address) to make sure they're not dropped from search engines. I monitor my logs on the old host as well as this one. So far since I moved my site, Googlebot has gobbled up 5.88 MB, counting May 9-22. No visits to the old site. There are very few hits to the old site. May 11: Quite a few humans May 12: One or two human visitors, and a few bots May 14th: h*tp://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/crawler was all over the site May 15th: Apparently human, but I have my doubts (typical bot behavior), from: lager.netcraft.com May 13th, 16th, 17th and 18th, 7 hits total from: Pompos/1.3 h*tp://dir.com/pompos.html I got some the 15th and 19th and an occasional hit other days from: 61.135.131.124 - - [19/May/2004:11:03:28 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 3860 "-" "google" Looks like some kind of copycat bot? IP number from: inetnum: 61.135.0.0 - 61.135.255.255 netname: CNCGROUP-BJ descr: CNCGROUP Beijing province network descr: China Network Communications Group Corporation descr: No.156,Fu-Xing-Men-Nei Street, descr: Beijing 100031 country: CN On the 20th I got some human traffic from edu.communitynet.ca and a bot from comcast.net: Mozilla 4.19 Compatible bot ( visitinfo@yahoo.com ) No visits May 21, 22 or 23 (so far). I get the occasional spam mail coming through.

On the other hand, if you post a lot here, and maybe a little bit personal, making a link active, or even having an inactive link on the forum will make it possible for people to find you through searching for your domain name and forum. There's one thing I've been wondering about, and been slightly frustrated about: Google will currently not bring up search hits for text that isn't visible on the page. So that means if I don't want people to follow me in here from Google, I can have my domain name under the www button at the bottom of each post, but shouldn't put the domain name in the body of a post, unless it's in a forum not indexed by Google.

I just wonder if there's something I'm missing here. I see lots of you guys enter a link this way: h*tp:// Which of course breaks the link. Is there something I should know?

Not this one: http://www.jikrantz.se/tchwebringinfo.htm It's on top of the ring fragment at the bottom of the page. Also, the LIST link should go to a list of sites, not the add site page, according to webring logic and how other rings work.

Love your error page!

Wowser, that's a bit more, yeah!

I use cron jobs at least twice a day. Backing up logs, and doing grep and backup. Hopefully that's not the level you are talking about?

I've been talking with Mariann about server resources. What could get you booted from TCH or other services? I've done some searching, and saw one person bitch about having been booted from TCH because of a Moodle installation. He was told in no uncertain terms that TCH did the responsible thing - by someone at the Moodle forum. I saw someone with a huge installation of the Cutecast board (cgi-based with flat file database) was booted from another host. I'm not asking you to name specific scripts, but more under what circumstances you could get into trouble with using too much resources? Like for instance under what circumstances could IVPB or phpBB become a problem? Edit: http://www.bootdisk.com/bootlist/072.htm This guys says: What effects server load the most is how many consecutive users you will have on each website. Or in other words how popular are you going to let each site become before it doesn't become viable to have it on a server with so many other sites that are all vying for memory, CPU cycles, disk access, and bandwidth. Before I started using dedicated hosting my last virtual hosting company for example would not allow my site to have more than 50 people on it consecutively. This can be very constraining.

I think I cracked it: ----- <? $yesterday = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")-1,date("Y")); $yesterday = strftime("%d/%b",$yesterday); $thatday = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")-1,date("Y")); $thatday = strftime("%d%b",$thatday); exec("grep '$yesterday' /usr/local/apache/domlogs/domain.com | gzip -9 >> /home/username/logs/$thatday.gz"); ?> ---- Not bad for a non-programmer, eh? And PLEASE tell me if I've really done something unsafe! The reason I had to break it up into yesterday and thatday is because if you put / into file names, the machine gets confused. You could of course append the year as well. I just didn't bother.

I finally figured out how to return yesterday's date in the same format as the log files: <? $yesterday = mktime(0,0,0,date("m"),date("d")-1,date("Y")); $yesterday = strftime("%d/%b",$yesterday); echo "$yesterday"; ?>