oy leechers

[Chris]

i never really worried about leechers on some of my domains because they really never had anything someone would want to leech
well i forgot to turn on hotlink protection i guess on one site that some chineese hotlinkers found

look at this crap

Bandwidth transfered this month 1592.67GB (As of Friday July 18th 2008 05:19:53 AM)
Bandwidth transfered last month 116.66GB


i was wondering why my sig was loading so slow and support didnt figure it out so i did my own work today and found the problem ... hot linkers

so i hit up my rep


this is no way an attack on the hosting company i use ..just frustrates the fuck out of me and im using gfy to vent

chris
12:47
holy FUCK
you there?
reo

12:47
yeah whats up?

chris
12:47
how the hell do i turn hotlink protection on
ive used over 1k bandwith on one site so far this month from a leecher

rep
12:48
ohh damn one sec....you will need to have link sentinal installed
one sec let me get you the information

chris
12:48
freak chineese sites aswell
now i know my server is crawling
the support guy yesterday said the server was fine and moving fast and it was then but now it is back to crawl and i see why now

rep
12:49
yea if you just got hot linked like that that will definitely bring your sites to a crawl
just give me one sec waiting for tech manager to get back to me on what is best to run on your server

chris
12:53
k

chris
1:50
any word yet?

chris
2:35
??

rep
2:38
hey sorry man....i can have link sentinal set up on your account. The cost are $39 set and $10 added to monthly fee

chris
2:38
ugh
ill figure it out my self

didnt htink hot link protection would cost

rep
2:39
yeah sorry but we have to go through 3rd party also so it costs us

chris
2:40
ill just do an htaccess file to stop it

rep
2:40
ok this would probably do the trick also . hit me up if you decide to go with the link sentinal