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Unexpected Grief

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I’ve had some serious problems with my business website and other domain, to be precise: with the software that I was using to run that website. It’s the same software that I’m using for this website and that I have been using for donkey years. Probably about nine: ever since the start of this blog. I’m slightly worried that the same might happen with this website and that I have to close it just like I had to with my business website.

It’s totally annoying… I think the main reason for the problem lies with G00gle. G00gle uses a tiny bit of software to scan all the pages for content. I’m avoiding the use of certain words on purpose in case you wonder why I’m all cryptic about it. I will explain in a moment. Since G00gle collects all the data, it is published and available from their website to everyone who visits and searches thus visible to the leeches as well.

So when they find your website and find the bit that is easy to take over and control then you might as well close it down because fighting the problem seems nearly impossible. The software I’m using has a weak spot and this is exactly what they will aim for and abuse. I found out it had been a week spot since the first release. I’ve had about thirty thousand h.i.t.s. in only seven days causing my account to almost exceed bandwidth.

Back to G00gle, since I am not using their service for this website I might be safe for now. But I was with the other one and just before the problem started I had written a post about the fact that I had been receiving lots of fake reactions on my posts coming from the far East. I’d also used keywords and I feel that because of that post in combination with the keywords and the search results from G00gle, it triggered the wrong kind of visitors.

The kind of visitors that just barge in and out each second trying to take control of what is yours and keeping at it with an extremely rigid and twisted enthusiasm. The kind that won’t take no for an answer. Ever since, I have been trying to fight the problem to no avail and it has only become bigger and more widespread coming from all directions of the globe. I’m blocking but some can’t be blocked unfortunately coz they’re way too clever!

I feel I’ve wasted so much time trying to deal with this. First I had to shut down the website, then I had to remove all the software, install a new CMS and totally redesign it. It was up and running for a while but then I saw it spike again and decided to take it offline until I’ve figured out a way to redirect incoming traffic to a fake page that contains no content and uses zero k in bandwidth so they won’t be able to spike it over and over again…

Anyway, you might understand why I am slightly worried. So if this website is gone all of a sudden you’ll know why.

Gosh

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I’m supposed to be offline today but I ain’t… I changed DNS already so things shouldn’t show up. Isn’t that weird?

I hope they take me offline asap because I want to be able to upload stuff to the servers of the Irish lads. Well we’ll see what happens tonight around midnight, I’m curious to be honest and it wouldn’t surprise me if they forgot about the fact that I cancelled with them. So if you send me email tonight or perhaps even during the day today and tomorrow, don’t be surprised if it might bounce back to you…

Best to send it to my other hive for now!

In the meantime I’m working hard on my new website design trying the latest Flash and the latest Actionscripting which will probably annoy the hell out of me during the next couple of weeks… I might decide to stick with Flash MX instead of MX2004 and up. So forgive me if I need to rave and rant on here if I can’t get things to work the way they’re supposed to work, scripting-wise that is. I am armed with six books that I bought over the years. Two that I bought recently which are:

‘Flash MX2004 Games; Art to Actionscript’ and ‘Understanding Flash MX2004 Actionscript2’, these seem to be good so I give it a go. I can’t waste too much time for now because I need to be up and running with my website, portfolio and resume dvd. I have a really good opportunity to seize which will bring me the freelance network needed, in two and a half weeks from now, so I will dig myself in and disappear from the surface for a while. Contact only via email please or on here. Back soon! That’s a promise!