Huh. How's their server performance with long comments threads? Maybe we should just move over there...
They're pointing the domain at our server, wiseass.
If you can figure out the IP address they're using to grab it, from the logs (with any luck it would be in russia) the htaccess syntax to ban it is pretty straightforward. But you need an IP range, which might be different than mobilemedia.ru.
Are they profiting from this, somehow?
I don't get it. What's the business model?
The Russian mafia doesn't need a business model!
Humping on Unfogged's PageRank. Russians.
The Russian mafia doesn't need a business model!
This is a commie thing, isn't it.
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I think this movie mentioned at least one business plan.
And on International Workers' Day, too.
Couldn't you just put something rude in Russian on each post header?
In Soviet Russia, model business needs you.
Hey- an improvement in position.
Cripes, did you see Yakov Smirnoff is a roaring success in Branson, MO?
I haven't even been around for the past 2.5 hours, so whatever ogged's trying to pin on me wasn't my doing.
Um, so it might not have been Ben who screwed up. I think it was the hosting company. You can resume loving young Ben.
Let one hundred Unfoggeds bloom.
I thought there was a moratorium on loving young ben. I'm so confused. So many rules!!1!1!
I see that the hosting company is content to knock the site offline while they dick around with trying to block the other domain. I even had to fix a typo they'd put in the code. Eegads. Nice people, though.
Speaking of the Russian mafia, just today I found that someone had fraudulently tried to charge money to a work-owned purchasing card I have.
The old Soviet bloc loves them some internet fraud.
China is like an online Tijuana. They're happy to sell you all kinds of things of questionable authenticity.
The best part of it was, it was a bogus charge for some porn site (according to the 3rd-party processor I talked to). Which made for a fun conversation with the Dept manager.
I've only been able to test it locally, but this .htaccess rule seems to work for me:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} mobimedia
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [F]
</IfModule>
Well, the site briefly went down shortly after I posted 33. I think I'll take that as a sign that I'm wildly off base and head to bed. Good luck, guys.
The site's going down periodically is my fault; sorry.
What dipshit added this:
# rewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .
#rewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?unfloggedi\.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
# rewriteRule \.(html|php|htm|xml)$ /lecher.html
to one of our .htaccess files?
(That's what was causing all those errors just a moment ago.)
(It should be made clear that was added was the stuff in 37 minus the leading hashes.)
I just told them they can stop mucking with it.
Be careful: the Russians might be holding some kind of kompromat.
There's only two "e"s in lecher.
I missed the excitement. The Russians found Unfogged's cache of cocks?
The Cossacks sacked our cock-cache.
I'm glad self-flagellation is now part of our identity again.
If someone's doing this thievery on you, and you run a blogspot blog, and know jack shit about htaccess, what are your options, really?
50: Is Blogspot hosting it? In that case, they can't point a domain to your blog, since blogspot uses the domain in the request to determine which blog to show. What might be happening is that your site is getting framed. I don't know how to block that.
Lifehacker (I know, I know) just had a post about what to do when someone hijacks your blog/content.
That lifehacker post is good. From a technical perspective, the best thing to do would be to use some Javascript to redirect the top frame to your domain. But in general this isn't likely to be much of a problem: search engines aren't going to bump anybody's rank over framed content, and that's the only reason to do these sorts of things (other than personal grudges).
17: That's Loyalty Day to you, commie.
Thread hijack: Can anyone recommend a good virtual host service? I want a RedHat server on someone else's hardware for a reasonable price. (I've about given up on having my own hardware; I had 3 servers in a row die on me, my current workplace doesn't have any spares and my friend at my old workplace is distressingly passive when it comes to ensuring that an old server should fall off the truck in front of my house.)
That's not really in the Unfogged style, young Ben.
That was going to be my suggestion, Ben, so good on you. Very much in the spirit of Unfogged that Ogged is asking how to stop that. Guess you shouldn't have started stretching to begin with, dude.
a good virtual host service?
It has to be virtual?
I'm not sure where else to link to this.
That's not at all what I thought it was.
Yeah. Basically I want someone else to deal with the hardware, but I want to handle all the OS/software administration on my own.
That's not necessarily virtual. I think what you want is root access. And how much are looking to pay?
In any case, recent site troubles aside, since I don't think they're the host's fault, we've been happy with Servstra.
Sadly, there doesn't seem to be a site named "unflogged.com".
I don't really know what's out there. I'm just tired of broken-ass antique Rackables crashing on me after a week.
MediaTemple also has virtual hosting; we looked at a bunch of hosts when we moved the site, I'll see if I still have my spreadsheet from when we were doing comparisons.
I've been informed via seekrit off-blog communication that the phrase I'm looking for is "virtual private server." IOW, keep your filthy paws off my root prompt, support people.
If that's what you want, you'll have to install the OS yourself, you know.
Yeah, that's what mediatemple, and a bunch of others, offer. Though the "private" means that's walled off from other users, not that the support folks can't access it (although they often can't until you give them your root password). I might have some names in old emails too; I'll check. I'd point you here, but honestly, it's just too much diffuse information.
I just realized that 63 may not be explicit enough for w-lfs-n, so to preempt a pedantic picking-apart of my exact syntax, please also note the name of my current blog. Appearances here to the contrary, I think I can wrap my pretty little head around an OS installation.
Ok, the companies we considered were Myriad Network, Voxel, Power VPS, Steadfast, and finally, Servstra, which is what we're on now.
Sorry, Magpie, I was confused because I remembered your saying that you wanted a red hat server and thought that you meant you wanted a preconfigured RH server.
I apologize.
All of those company names sound like dodgy pharmaceuticals.
I don't think she's single, Ben, you didn't need to do that.
My attachment status aside, I could never bring Ben home to my parents because of his choice of university.
Your parents are vile Northwesternians?!
Grad school is different, and anyway I've got two generations' worth of Berkeley connections.
I don't think you're allowed to hold someone's grad school against him. It's not the same kind of choice.
Tell that to my parents as they're writing me out of their will.
That site now has some pretty disgusting porn.
Perhaps better to take down that link, so us unsuspecting Unfogged lurkers don't fall into that trap?
on the flip side, i once had a guy in Turkey grab hold of the DNS entry to my business' site (thanks for the great security , Network Solutions!). he pointed my domain at his site, and sent me a ransom email for $200 - i just had to give him my CC info, and he'd be sure to only charge me the $200 he was asking for.
the FBI said they couldn't help unless/until i could prove my losses were over $2500. i decided i didn't want to wait that long. and after a day or so, i talked Network Solutions into giving the domain back to me.
ACK! Don't anybody click on the link in the original post!
That's awesome.
I love this Russian!
Maybe they'll coblog if you ask nice?