Who let the chinese out?

PlatDomains · 11-30-2005, 06:34 AM

lol.

So I woke up this morning, thinking I was just going to approve the usual 5-10 new members I get well I sleep and BAM. 178 clients pending.

At first my reaction was that someone was being a bit of a jerk and just created a bunch of phoney requests. I checked about half of them, none were the case!

After some careful research (fiddling around) I discovered that a major chinese site (I couldn't read what the site was about) had listed me.

I guess them chinese really like their free stuff eh?

On a side note: Does anyone know how to force php ad's without it messing up?

ukgaz · 12-11-2005, 06:40 PM

i had to put livesite into isolation due the amount of signup requests i got from them even though my TOS specificly say NO! on top of that im getting constant email viruses attempting to come through

ikonz · 12-24-2005, 11:20 AM

platdomains, whats the url of the chinese site? i might want to drop them an email

webbist · 12-25-2005, 01:36 AM

Nothing against the Chinese, but when I ran a free host, that was the biggest problem I had. TOS clearly stated English only sites, but I got flooded with Chinese sites, most of them hosting illegal content anyway.

ukgaz · 12-26-2005, 02:52 PM

welcome to the club, why do you think that i had to close down livesite, but it seems as soon as i posted about livesite here, i started getting signups from there and its where all the trouble began,

and no im not blaming you guys who run this forum

zanzan · 12-26-2005, 08:52 PM

i think they really like freestuffs!!

aGig · 12-28-2005, 01:58 AM

You will find the chinese users are abusers... Not all of them but a big share upload files/photos and before you know it they have used 10 gigs of bw.

As far as forced ads one method is mod_layout. It does mess up gzip, but most scripts will still work with out gzip.

Mark

FragForge · 01-04-2006, 02:02 AM

yea, that's a bit scary.. I just started hosting free accounts today - and they must have found my site listed here, because i had 10 sign up's in 20mins - so i just banned the ip range.

ikonz · 01-04-2006, 10:57 AM

Do signups from those chinese ips ever create actual web pages or anything? or is it all just pirated files.

aGig · 01-04-2006, 12:29 PM

Some of them create sites, but if its not porn it is a site with free software.