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What I'd like to know what a "normal" traffic for a 400 MB site is. Do I need more than 20GB? I might get an additional 10 or 20GB package if necessary.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mydomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mydomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://123.456.789.0
RewriteRule /* [mydomain.com...] [R,L]
Substitute someimage.jpg with your site logo probably showing the URL. This will turn the traffic from image hijackers into your own. Neat isnt it?
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.mydomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://mydomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://123.456.789.0
RewriteRule /* [mydomain.com...] [R,L]This will turn the traffic from image hijackers into your own. Neat isnt it?
davidku
It will create an endless loop and no-one will be able to access the site. When someone tries to enter or access the site they don't have [mydomain...] as the refering URL so they are blocked. They are also blocked from someimage.jpg because they are unable to send the correct refering URL
Check your sticky mail.
How about international and other portals/proxy cache servers who do not use Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;) as their UA? While I understand this code accomplishes more efficient screening for UA spoofing, I still am hesitant to use an accross the board block with unknown variables when I get significant international referrals.
keyplyr
RewriteRule .*\.(gif¦jpg¦png)$ - [F,NC]
Images only are blocked from hotlinking/downloading
The site can still be entered in the normal manner, via a search engine link, bookmark, etc.
Over 65% of my visitors are from Asian countries and these countries also use Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;) for the proxy servers.
I spent considerable time studying my access.log files for all access without a refering URL. In nearly all cases the site was rapidly downloaded and the visitor would not have had enough time to read any webpage on the server.
I assumed it just meant they'd come straight to my site, eg as a home page.
Hi musicales
When a visitor enters your site directly they do not have a refering URL. If they enter from a search engine or link from another site the other site's link will be the refering URL.
Refer to example below for a direct visitor. There is no refering URL for the page the visitor entered. All the images accessed from index.html have the correct refering URL "http://domain.com" so they are returned to the visitor.
GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 931 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"
GET /one.png HTTP/1.1" 200 842 "http://domain.com/index.html"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"
GET /two.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 18515 "http://domain.com/index.html"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"
GET /three.png HTTP/1.1" 200 1676 "http://domain.com/index.html"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)"
In the following example there was no refering URL for the images and a 403 error was returned to the visitor. mod_rewrite has blocked access to the images because there was no refering URL from index.html
GET /index.html HTTP/1.0" 200 4244 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)"
GET /one.png HTTP/1.0" 403 0 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)"
GET /two.jgp HTTP/1.0" 403 0 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)"
GET /three.png HTTP/1.0" 403 0 "-"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)"
So your checking only to make sure images have a refering page, but not the pages themselves right?
musicales,
Yep, thats correct. You can also stop hotlinking to pdf, mp3, zip, etc, by addding the extensions to the Rewrite Rule.
RewriteRule .*\.(gif¦jpg¦png¦pdf¦zip¦mp3)$ - [F,NC]
It depends.
I have a 43 MB site which is mostly text and which has been live for less than a month and it is getting close to exceeding the monthly allocation of 20GB.
It isn't even showing up in Google yet.
I will have to split it soon.
I would start splitting your image files up between multiple sites if I were you. Put the 100 most popular images on one site and the less poplular images on other sites. Then as the "most popular 100" exceeds its bandwidth you will probably only have to split that site and not have to worry too much about the others.
Once you have the most popular under control, you can concentrate on making the other images more popular.
Bill Austin
(yes, that one)
I have a 43 MB site which is mostly text and which has been live for less than a month and it is getting close to exceeding the monthly allocation of 20GB.It isn't even showing up in Google yet.
Where does all the traffic come from?
I would start splitting your image files up between multiple sites if I were you.
I called my provider today. They said, if I get another package I'm not allowed to use the additional bandwidth under my domain. So I'll have to start splitting the site soon. I'll probably start putting the JPEG files of the full size images (which make up the bulk of the webspace) into the new domain, so that the URLs of my site won't change and nobody (visitors, search engines) will notice the modification.
sssami ;)
e.g.
www.domain1.com - main domain account1
www.domain2.com - second domain account2
Pointer images.domain1.com -> www.domain2.com
Thanks for correcting.
May I know where I can get some resources to learn up the .htaccess programming?
Interesting, I am doing something quite similar, running a photo library on a website. I've got about 11,000 images in there, and I've almost used up my 600 Mb space. I have an average of 1,200 visitors a day and each of them visits about 7.6 pages. My traffic is about 10 Gb (1,000,000 hits) a month. I always keep my images size between 30 - 70Kb, but like you image quality is so important, at 415 pixels, I only use 70% jpg compression, so the quality of images is still there). I think your images are much too big and it takes a long time to load, you might find that having images smaller, people will stay longer and see more of your site. I've studied site statistic very seriously, and that is one of many other things I have learnt.
By the way, could you send me a sticky mail for url of your site. I am very interested to see your Thailand gallery. I kind of home sick, have not been back home for quite some years, it would be nice to see the pictures.
Did someone say something about the @rse end of the world?
Here in Australia a *good* rate for bandwidth is $0.08 per MB with some companies throwing in free bandwidth to a point and then hitting you with $0.20 - $0.35 per MB.
Did someone say something about the @rse end of the world?
$0.08 per MB - that would be $80 per GB. $0.20 - $0.35 per MB is $200-350 per GB. You call that a good rate? Maybe Australia is a good place to set up an ISP business.
I just bought an additional package - 100MB webspace and 7GB of traffic for $4/month. Will put the Thailand JPEGs there.
Too much traffic, how would you go about advertising you site and getting so much traffic to it as i just have no idea at the moment
My site ranks pretty well with Google and most country galleries are listed in DMOZ. For example the Malaysia gallery ranks Nr.2 in Google for 'Malaysia pictures' (used to be Nr. 1 until last month). Every day the Googlebot visits between 1000 to 2000 pages to check if I made changes. Sometimes new pages of my site appear in Google within a few days.
I also suspect that I get quite a number of repeat visitors. The site is huge and you can't visit it all in one session.
35 Gig of disk space
50 Gig traffic / 10 million hits
$15.95 per month
They also have 24/7 tech support, with freephone 1-800 telephone support available 7AM PST to 9PM PST, Monday - Friday
I think its only a single domain, but it looks like a good solution for your kind of site.
I'll sticky the details to you. If anyone else has a need for this kind of host, please let me know.
btw I'm not affiliate with them, just looks like a good deal!
The deal was found by a friend of mine, who I believe will be opening an account. I have no information, regarding the service quality. I am not recommending them - it just looks like a good deal!
I was talking in Aussie dollars so you can cut those figures in half, but I was being very sarcastic when I said they were *good* rates.
I don't think Australia is a very good place to start up an ISP business unless you went in very big. The thing is, almost all the ISPs are paying very high prices for bandwidth themselves, except for the one or two largest - who actually have the physical infrastructure.
$7.77 a month
Sticky-mail me the URL
