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Budis · 05-28-2008, 11:11 PM

You surely knows what I mean.
You have some galleries or blogs and now your server is down and there are thousands and thousands of chinese forums in your referrer stats. How to avoid it?

I used to add those urls in my htaccess, but my hosting company told me that it made my server overload.

How do you handle with this chinese hotlink traffic? I want to avoid google penalization or anything that would harm me instead of those hotlinkers.

Thanks for answers...

wizzart · 05-29-2008, 03:29 AM

change hosting

papill0n · 05-29-2008, 04:09 AM

how many entries in your htaccess?

Ditosta · 05-29-2008, 05:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Budis

You surely knows what I mean.
You have some galleries or blogs and now your server is down and there are thousands and thousands of chinese forums in your referrer stats. How to avoid it?

I used to add those urls in my htaccess, but my hosting company told me that it made my server overload.

How do you handle with this chinese hotlink traffic? I want to avoid google penalization or anything that would harm me instead of those hotlinkers.

Thanks for answers...

Can I ask who you are hosted with?

Marco Porno · 05-29-2008, 08:21 AM

Bump ... yeah would love to get more info on this.

rowan · 05-29-2008, 09:18 AM

htaccess is the only way you can block by referer, unless you move to more drastic measures such as blocking by IP range. This is more efficient since it can be done at the IP level (referer blocking requires a connect and some HTTP data to be exchanged before returning a 403 error) but there's more room for colateral damage.

For example, blocking 210.*.*.* is going to piss off a lot of Aussies and New Zealanders too.

GetSCORECash · 05-29-2008, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by rowan

For example, blocking 210.*.*.* is going to piss off a lot of Aussies and New Zealanders too.

good point. but blocking by IP is the best way.

Budis · 05-29-2008, 10:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RageCash-Ben

how many entries in your htaccess?

about 50-60

Budis · 05-29-2008, 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rowan

htaccess is the only way you can block by referer, unless you move to more drastic measures such as blocking by IP range. This is more efficient since it can be done at the IP level (referer blocking requires a connect and some HTTP data to be exchanged before returning a 403 error) but there's more room for colateral damage.

For example, blocking 210.*.*.* is going to piss off a lot of Aussies and New Zealanders too.

thanks for info

the only problem is that those chinese sites are growing up like mad. I ban some of them and other days there are more new sites in my referrer stats. blocking each of those sites is just a temporary thing

Mr Pheer · 05-29-2008, 11:23 PM

no way to make money from that hotrink traffic?

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rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	htaccess is the only way you can block by referer, unless you move to more drastic measures such as blocking by IP range. This is more efficient since it can be done at the IP level (referer blocking requires a connect and some HTTP data to be exchanged before returning a 403 error) but there's more room for colateral damage. For example, blocking 210...* is going to piss off a lot of Aussies and New Zealanders too.