Comments on: So long China

By: scottandrew

scottandrew — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:32:59 +0000

Heh, it’s been awhile since I cleaned up my site’s traffic. I forgot how fun it is to block the hotlinkers who use graphics on my site for forum avatars and stuff.

Denied, suckas.

By: Josh Woodward

Josh Woodward — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:47:17 +0000

Yeah, I killed Baidu and QQ, too. I haven’t gotten much from Y!China. The best I could figure, it was their Flash streamer that’s completely dain bramaged.

The dumbest thing is that I’m still getting a bunch of error log entries – about two years after I blocked them.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:34:30 +0000

I actually just put in some htaccess blocks for a whole bunch of them.

I’ve noticed it occasionally in the past because the site’s been sluggish and I notice my MP3s are getting hammered from China. I’m not suffering from it on a day to day basis and I have enough bandwidth, but it’s ridiculous the amount they’re hitting them.

I also had to put IP throttling on my /archives/ pages to deal with bots slamming my server, but as far as I can tell they’re not Chinese. Just dicks.

By: scottandrew

scottandrew — Fri, 18 May 2007 02:14:39 +0000

Heh, last night I wrote a similar script to track plays and downloads, and this morning in the shower I was thinking “I should block those Baidu jerks.”

Did you block them at the server or is it just in your script?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 May 2007 01:15:12 +0000

How bizarre. It reminds of when I worked for a stock photo company, and there was a huuuuuuge amount of bandwidth being accounter for by either a location in India or China, or both…like you, no sales ever took place in those locations. I think they were finally cutoff, eventually… Gotta wonder what’s going on…