By the 17th of this month that was also
depleted and I had to up it to 15000mb, I became suspicious
and contacted my host.
They advised that a photo of Tyra Banks, posted on the
site in May had received 6 times the amount of requests
of any other file on the site. They advised that I remove
the file, which I did.
By yesterday morning I had used 14645mb,
so I contacted the host again.
Turns out that some thieving American
bastards have been stealing my bandwidth!
Welcome to the world of ‘hotlinking’ ‘
leeching’ ‘piggy-backing’, ‘direct
linking’, ‘offsite image grabs’ and
‘bandwidth theft.’
Hostgator gave me instructions on how
to enable ‘hotlink protection’ but when
I tried to do that, I received an error message ‘Unable
to access the file .htaccess. Permission denied.’
The frigging bastards had tampered with that file too.
The issue has since been
resolved, but I do not have enough bandwidth left to
last until the end of this month.
So, if the site is down
sometime this week saying ‘Bandwidth Exceeded’,
please bear with me.
I will be back on 1 December.
The message from the server
said ‘Hotlinking protection has been enabled on
your site. This should prevent any further bandwidth
theft.’
No way am I going to buy
more bandwidth on a should be resolved promise.
I will wait until I know that it has been resolved.
The culprit by the way
was identified as the site bgol.us.
Frigging cheap thieving bastards.
Kader Khan
Editor
info@yummie.co.za
