Imablog

May 7, 2011August 2, 2024

Blocked: .cn

Blocking all the .cn IP address blocks appears to have been pretty effective. Still seeing a lot of traffic, but all they get is a 403 error.

Bandwidth used is back to normal levels, around 70 MB/day instead of 1.5 GB/day.
Despite with having 3000+ Deny from directives in the .htaccess file, blog performance actually seems to be better. The problem with chronic 500 Internal Server Errors has gotten a lot better since I put the block in. Not having to handle all those bot requests seems to have really helped.

May 7, 2011August 3, 2024

Whirlwind visit

My geologist brother happened to be checking out a gold mine near Kershaw, SC (yes, there are gold mines in SC) and hopped over after his site visit yesterday to hang out. Had a good, but short visit (he flew out today). Showed him around work, then spent a rainy afternoon over at the Folly Beach Fishing Pier and dried off a bit over a beer at Rita’s.

It’s only the third time we’ve managed to get together over the past 11 years so it was good getting together again. Being spread out on opposite ends of two countries makes family get-togethers challenging.