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.
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.
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'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.