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My site has been under attack for months. I believe the attackers have found a vulnerability where they can cause the CPU/mem usage to spike, which alerts my webhost to unusual activity. I cannot replicate on my machine. Their reaction?

Webhost has KO'd my site since yesterday ~2PM EST. No notification. They have killed all FTP access, and made it so the app itself cannot be started. I'll need to get on with their tech support, but the last time this happened they forced me into a higher level plan. The next level up is a dedicated server and about $100/month in hosting. I'm not wealthyanon, I can afford time, but not $1-2k/year in hosting.

Last time they wouldn't start the site back up unless I upgraded. I expect the same to be true again. If that's the tact they take, then the site may be down until I can rewrite it so that it requires less server resources, or figure out a way to pay for the costs. I'm leaning towards rewriting just so the existing static archive can be accessed, but stopping new scrapes and possibly moving to a cheaper host.

I've not set up for donations or charged for anything, so I guess I could set that up, but really would rather not.

Could start a new project all together on the domain and start from scratch. The site gets decent traffic, but nothing like the one with titles. Not sure how much anons even use it anyways given the size of the movement as a whole. Maybe it's just time to let it go.

Whole site is running locally, so I'm still getting scrapes.

Trying to decide what to do. Any ideas/encouragement?

>>9742741

You didn't say which site?

MF here. Replying to >>9743462 on Meme Campaign Thread.

(I had a fight with a server company after using them for a long time. No good feelings left about hosting companies. No advice to offer.)

>>9744260

>moar automation

Oh I am all in on automation. I've been thinking about a way of gathering memes from here, but have stalled on it a bit. I'm not sure there is a substitute for a human in some things, finding good memes is difficult to automate.

Reading direct from Mega wouldn't be hard to implement. Just set it up where it's an option in the MC, accept a URL, and either download or go direct to twitter. Do you have a pref? Do you/anons have bandwidth to aggregate vetted memes?

And now for some good news. Just got off the phone with support at the host and they managed to get the site to come back up. Mysterious jacked up settings that no one changed. Noted. It appears to be coming back up now and catching up with the scrapes. 24 hrs behind - so it should take a while with all the posting Q has done. Hopefully some cruise control on the site and it will be OK for now.

>>9744551

I am using free mega accounts (15 GB limit). I have two so far. They are giving me tokens when people create mega accounts after visiting mine. At some point these tokens are cash to buy more mega bandwidth. I don't foresee the need to use the tokens or pay for bandwidth/storage because I can just create more free accounts.

The human factor to evaluate the meme (worth collecting or not) and decide how to categorize it by content is essential. Google spends a shitload of R&D resources automating image categorization. I don't foresee competing with them.

I have not given Mega account passwords to anyone because it was impossible to determine who to trust. Would be terrific to share the responsibility but so far no takers. :-(

I had a Wordpress site for a long time. Put some automation on it to email me whenever nonexistent URLs were being scanned. Discovered that I got from dozens to hundreds of scans a day from hackers who were constantly probing for vulnerabilities, backlevel code, backlevel WP modules, careless permissions on folders, etc. They would make up lists of words and URL formats to vary, and looking for email addresses to harvest, dropping "comments" that were really advertisements for their crap, etc. I presume that all internet hosts get scanned regularly and if hackers find a way to drop malware or exploits on a host, they do. That's one reason I let the WP site go. Even with hosting tools for automatic software updates it got to be overwhelming.

I don't think many people install tools to monitor attacks on their site. It was eye-popping.

>>9744850

I hear ya. I added some code a few weeks ago to write some more detail to logfiles when something unexpected happens and I see the same thing. Scanning for WP login pages/vulnerabilities, SQL injection attacks, DOS. Site actually gets pummeled. Eye popping is right.

I say we keep moving as we are now. I'll play around with adding some mega code to see how it works. I'll keep thinking about a way to harvest memes from here into a single place. I got a couple ideas already, but if you've got some ideas I'd love to hear em.

>>9747971

Brainfuck is funny. There's some online tools to play around with it. It's a very basic language.

It's so basic it requires a brainfuck to operate. Funny.