So you may have noticed the immense amount of downtime on the site over the last day and change. Basically, what has happened is this: Google Reader Play got launched, and quite a few images from the Kim Jong-LOL post got added to it, and then a bunch more got added to it, and the end result is a shitload of image leeching that the server really wasn’t ready to handle in the way that it’s configured.
Rest assured that my crack team of people willing to do me favours for next to nothing is on the case, but there’s not going to be any new content for a bit until things are relatively stable once more.
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Oh boy.
Google DDoSing MGK?
So we can just add this to the list of Kim Jong-Il’s crimes against humanity.
WIKIPEDIA IS IN RUINS. MIGHTYGODKING SHALL BE DISPATCHED IN A SIMILAR FASHION, ONLY MORE HUMILIATING.
so what you’re saying is that you be il’ing?
i’ll get my coat.
I assume you’ve considered blocking hotlinking by referrer? It’s a pretty simple .htaccess rule:
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer “mightygodking\.com/” local_ref=1
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from env=local_ref
Oops, looks like some greater-than and less-than characters didn’t get escaped in my previous comment:
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer “sonic\.net/” local_ref=1
<FilesMatch “\.(gif|jpg)”>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from env=local_ref
</FilesMatch>
Noes! Not the google!
This is a test of the commenting system.