_____/ On Tue 11 Oct 2005 18:14:33 BST, [Amit Gupta] wrote : \_____
Roy Schestowitz <r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| ...let alone have any access to a console for their /own/ account/s
| (unless they
| use cron jobs as a workaround).
some hosts provide SSH access on their shared hosting plans & some
provide it
for reseller accounts.
Not my host *frown*. Consider yourself to be fortunate if you are allowed
SSH/Telnet access. The best I can ever do when wishing to invoke commands is
use
tricks <
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/09/12/cpanel-terminal-hack/
.
but I don't think that would cut it though, since
it requires
fiddeling with the server's firewall rules & that won't be allowed &
even if you manage
to do it, its a likely bet that you'll be kicked out by your host pretty
soon after
your feat!! ;)
I could possibly ask them to do that as they are quite kind. It all depends on
how many tickets they have open at the time.
| Dougal, I read about SpamValve and I appreciate your suggestion. As
it's the
| first time spam of that scale hit me (peaking at over 200 MB of
dynamic
| content
| per day), I decided to just re-direct to a forbidden (code 403) page.
This has
| worked for over a day.
Bad Behavior does something similar, but instead of redirecting to a 403
page,
its simply uses the die() I think!!
Judging by the logs tonight, my main domain wind up serving 8000 requests for
403.shtml yesterday. Had the redirection not been in place, gigabytes of
on-the-fly traffic would have gone wasted. All the referrers are Tonga
domains,
but none is a Tonga IP address. Make you wonder, eh? Those bloody
spammers have
slowed down crawling by search engines, I suspect, not to mention destroyed
logs and made statstics virtually meaningless. Is there anything the spammers
would not ruin? Even the manual intervention makes it all a PITA and this
continues to get worse by the day.
Roy
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