Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Maybe I should create a Tumblog.  I thought about it, but created another blog over on WordPress.com.  I don’t follow many Tumblogs but there are one or two gems I’ve found and today one posted some pretty awesome animated gifs which are always popular with web surfers and bandwidth thieves.  One of the big problems [...]

So in the last 48 hours the number one page on my entire domain is 403 – Page Not Found. This shows just how many people were stealing bandwidth from me. I still don’t have the .htaccess solution working, but I am paying more for my webhosting so I’m going to be more vigilant against [...]

I think I’m now paying more for my webhosting, but I’m not sure I’m actually getting more bandwidth. I was getting a good deal before and now I’m possibly not. The company I was using DixieSys was acquired sometime back and so my plan no longer exists. If it wasn’t for bandwidth thieves I could [...]

Well my anti-hotlinking solution seems to be working. The biggest offenders from this month shouldn’t be stealing any more of my bandwidth. The photos I posted to various miniature painting forums seem to all still be working. But what I really need to do is see if this will solve the problem long term and [...]