I’ve started banning bandwidth hogging IPs…the amount of bandwidth some IPs are sucking is just not acceptable. I crossed about 20 GB in data transfer for the paidContent.org site last month, and the site was down for almost a day as it crossed the bandwidth limit. This was the second time in the last 3 months, and I do not want that to occur again.
The first one I banned was about 10 days ago…the second one was today. Both of these were automated site clipping services or something similar (NOT RSS newsreaders, in case you were wondering), and I will proactively prevent and prosecute these clipping services. So take this as a warning…human beings and RSS feeds OK, clipping bots not.
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