Strangely Perfect

Introduction to the Problem and .htaccess Usage I’ve had a few weird hits over time from “normal” websites containing “abnormal” content.  Take today, for instance…. According to my Wassup log and the stats that appear on the main screen widget, I got reffered by: http://www.space.com/common/community/profile.php?u=1078916 Click this if you will.  It’s an ad for male [...]

Use .htaccess!!! *Ebook Admin/Secure Apache I’ve mentioned it before – and the technique I used to use a lot with a huge list of blocked IP addresses.  I then decided that the list was too time consuming to maintain and stopped using it except in extreme cases about the end of last year.  Such a [...]

I’m looking at getting a new host for (at some of) my domains. ixWebHosting who I’ve used for some time, keep falling over and I’m getting a bit fed up with apologetic support ticket replies and no change in service.  For about a year they were quite reasonable but since the server move out of [...]

Following on from my previous little post about DB Cache, I’ve been using it since that time and it seems to be faster to me from little old Blighty.  I use a USA based host so anything I see has to cross the pond anyway, but in a non-logged-in state, page loading is definitely faster [...]

I’ve had quite a few search enquiries and hits for komatoz.net on my sites recently so there are obviously a lot of people suffering out there with spamming and registration problems that I’ve “currently” ;-) got under control. (We all know that this is a continuous battle against spammers as their approaches and techniques change [...]

I’ve noticed some recently increasing activity on the unsolicited comments front to my Crawling Chaos blog as well as trackbacks and pingbacks. This has culminated with something I picked up using my “digital fingerprint”. It’s a link that goes to a webpage like this: It’s supposedly a simple search string but it fires up my [...]

This site is set up using blogging software called WordPress. It’s hosted on my dedicated hosting solution ixWebHosting in Kentucky, USA. For this, they give me several unique IP addresses, a shed load of email, database and FTP accounts as well as up-to-date Apache, php and MySQL installations. There are other extras too – check [...]

Hi Constance. You are lucky to get through – you nearly went into the automatic de-spammer with a subject heading of “Greetings and Intro”!!!Your family history is interesting. Trouble is, everyone in England is related to someone – especially in Somerset! They pulled a body out of the bog near here, pre-Stonehenge, and the DNA [...]