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Sunday, July 20, 2003
BB4 BBQ BBQed
The good news is that BB4 BBQ had found someone to host their site (BadJuju) with a whopping 100 megs of bandwidth. The bad news is the reason BB4 BBQ went down and had to find a white knight is that they suffered a Denial of Service attack!
Some bozo was FTPing from her site every few seconds and used up 13 Gigabytes of bandwidth in a week. Finally she convinced her host to look into it and found this person eating up bandwidth and was able to ban him - at least from that IP address.
But not soon enough to rack up a big bill and having to switch hosts.
So webmasters be aware - check those activity logs and make sure someone isn't draining your bandwidth - and pocketbook!
Some bozo was FTPing from her site every few seconds and used up 13 Gigabytes of bandwidth in a week. Finally she convinced her host to look into it and found this person eating up bandwidth and was able to ban him - at least from that IP address.
But not soon enough to rack up a big bill and having to switch hosts.
So webmasters be aware - check those activity logs and make sure someone isn't draining your bandwidth - and pocketbook!
