# Tell me about web hosting **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 11, 2005, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-web-hosting/316614 "2005-08-11T17:14:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![rfgdxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rfgdxm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfgdxm)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-web-hosting/316614/21 "2005-08-12T17:39:33Z")
> [@LostGoals](#): > > **rfgdxm** You have an email I sent it last night. Not sure if you got it. > > **biddee** if you want a “how to” starting with registering the whole way to FTP trainer let me know, I have one ready to go for trainee’s here, just not uploaded. I can make some minor proprietary changes and upload it later tonight or tomorrow. Its simplified for people with no knowledge of website hosting, updating multiple sites. > > [hijack] Bandwidth is currently in the yellow for my company and I found out why, someone is downloading all our pages, and images, hundreds of thousands of them, no clue why but need to stop them. Currently taking some sites offline, then back online back and forth trying to disrupt them. Any help? [/hijack] Please resend that e-mail to rfgdxm \ geeks \ org. I just checked my inbox, and also the box that all my spam filers catch and shunt it off to. Most likely your e-mail either got lost in transit, or is still trying to make it to me. Try adding “LostGoals” in the subject line. As for your hijack, figure out the IP range that the scum who is downloading all your pages and images. Then, just server side drop all requests from that IP in the bit bucket. You may need to contact your web host about how to do this. My best guess is you are under a DOS attack. Are your sites commercial? If so, it may be a competitor doing this. ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-web-hosting/316614/22 "2005-08-12T20:06:12Z")
> [@rfgdxm](#): > > Please resend that e-mail to rfgdxm \ geeks \ org. I just checked my inbox, and also the box that all my spam filers catch and shunt it off to. Most likely your e-mail either got lost in transit, or is still trying to make it to me. Try adding “LostGoals” in the subject line. > > As for your hijack, figure out the IP range that the scum who is downloading all your pages and images. Then, just server side drop all requests from that IP in the bit bucket. You may need to contact your web host about how to do this. My best guess is you are under a DOS attack. Are your sites commercial? If so, it may be a competitor doing this. I just re-sent it. Not a problem, a lot of our mail gets caught by spam filters, since some bastard started using a fake [email@ourdomains.com](mailto:email@ourdomains.com) for viruses and crap last year. I banned all the China range as thats where the attack/thief originated. No problems since then. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![biddee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@biddee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biddee)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-web-hosting/316614/23 "2005-08-12T23:08:46Z")
**Lost Goals** , I would LOVE to get a copy of that training manual. You can either email me through my profile or better yet, biddee at candw dot ag. Thank you so much! ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Train\_Song](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Black\_Train\_Song](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Train_Song)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-web-hosting/316614/24 "2005-08-13T04:41:16Z")
A friend and I just got into pretty much the same thing biddee. I’ve been using yahoo domains to register my domains ($4.95 per/yr). When we were first setting up the DNS it was absurdly late on a friday night and we were still able to get someone to talk us through it from their customer support. We also just rented a dedicated server (which I’m new at also…two months) and the control panel makes it tolerable to figure out for me. My friend is more server literate than I am. We’re really getting into this for the web design side rather than the hosting side but figured we’d easily cover the server costs with just a few customers. The server we’re renting is a 160 GB hard drive and 1200 GB monthly bandwidth for around $140 a month. If you want any info on that let me know. Also, since we’re just getting into this our server is quite empty. If you want, and my friend has no objections, maybe we could work out some kind of reseller package. It’s already got the pop3 email /spam filter and control panel and you’d be free to add a slew of domains. But like I said, we’re new at this too. ---
**Author:** ![rfgdxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rfgdxm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfgdxm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-web-hosting/316614/25 "2005-08-13T23:53:19Z")
> [@LostGoals](#): > > I just re-sent it. Not a problem, a lot of our mail gets caught by spam filters, since some bastard started using a fake [email@ourdomains.com](mailto:email@ourdomains.com) for viruses and crap last year. > > I banned all the China range as thats where the attack/thief originated. No problems since then. Thanks Please resend again to rfgdxm \ gmail \ com. Looks like your mail server may be blacklisted and I can’t receive anything you send at my usual e-mail. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-web-hosting/316614.md?page=1)