I explored the emerging trend of blogspamming targeting referral logs. Because my hosting service doesn't provide these logs, I am accidentally immune to this new phenomenon that uses site statistics to gain visibility.
Blogspamming: the new phenomenon. It works only if you have a referral log, and look at it. Unfortunately for me, thanks to my crazy domain hosting service, I am blogspam-immune. via kuro5hin
I use Site24x7 to monitor downtime and receive SMS alerts for critical issues. By analyzing uptime reports and lost ad revenue, I justified switching to a more reliable web host to ensure better sleep and site availability.
I compared hosting costs across GAE, Azure, and AWS. I chose Amazon EC2 spot instances in Singapore, using shell scripts for fast recovery to cut my monthly hosting bill from $230 to just $29.
Explore this archival link to Anita’s 2002 article about domain registration and web hosting. It covers the basics of securing a web identity and choosing a server provider, reflecting early 2000s internet infrastructure trends.
I tracked my site's referral traffic following the launch of Microsoft’s Bing search engine. My data shows a significant initial spike followed by a rapid decline, illustrating how the search engine's early hype quickly faded.
I've lost the ability to provide hit statistics because I can't locate the Apache access log on the unix2 server, where it used to reside at its standard path. My apologies for the lack of updates.