Jun 152005
i’ve been noticing a major amount of sluggishness on the domains that I host on my webserver recently.
finally tracked down some of the problems – linking to images on my site from places all over the internet. apparently people loooooove to put them in their sigs on forums and such.
so i starting playing with the apache mod_rewrite command and only allow referers (apache misspelling) from zenandjuice.com and livejournal.com since that’s where I intend my blog images to be seen.
so far, I haven’t implemented it site-wide (just in specific image folders), but I’m keeping a real-time watch on my log files to see how much stuff is stolen from elsewhere on my site.
those that do link to my images get redirected to this graphic: 
