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joeyjoneson Response From AWS About April Price Reductions Not Being Applied

So I guess all we can do now is wait and hope that they get everything sorted out.

joeyjoneson My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

Having a duplicate site would do a lot of damage to my Google search rankings.

joeyjoneson My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

The thing is that he isn't scraping the site ahead of time, he scrapes for content in real time. When a request is made to 4co.in he requests the corresponding page from altexplorer.net, does string replacement on the site name and url, and then outputs it to his users.

joeyjoneson My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

Thanks, I hadn't thought of trying to find the person behind it. This is verified by checking a caches version of 4co.in with google: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Gfp7QK3... as the username for the "Hello World!" post is "krnaveen".

joeyjoneson My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

Yup, donations should still go to me.

joeyjoneson My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

The thing is that the coin information isn't unique and the block, tx, address, etc info is all on the block chain. The unique content is the profitability and historic information, but the charting is broken in what they scrape.

joeyjoneson My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

For now I have added a news post with a link to the proper site and am debating between blocking the IP or delivering a static page with a link to the proper URL or a javascript redirect to the proper site.

joeyjoneson My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

I am going to lok into this later today through nginx. I am planning on having every request from their scraping IP return a static page linking to the proper site.

joeyjoneson My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

I have reported it to the abuse contact of the web host, colocation provider, and cloudflare. I am however not expecting a response in a timely manner from any of them.

Luckily they are stripping out the ad tags before displaying by site so it shouldn't affect Ad Sense.

joeyjoneson My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do

Sample log excerpt: 162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:18:18:48 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 23271 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:18:37:51 +0000] "GET /chain/42 HTTP/1.1" 200 76170 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:17:40:58 +0000] "GET /block/0e67dcf5f6797840a98061af7581138f2347feb168d78f7138d4268c6f854748 HTTP/1.1" 200 15719 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:18:38:21 +0000] "GET /tx/6c636ebff9674f4168b80b415f8a9097509802992b0422a4fa98c543da9c068e HTTP/1.1" 200 15898 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:17:41:05 +0000] "GET /address/GRjc357hnC7THEUPVJmpMmCjSAGn54CJnx HTTP/1.1" 200 14034 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:18:13:21 +0000] "GET /news HTTP/1.1" 200 16675 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

162.222.227.123 - - [14/Feb/2014:18:19:12 +0000] "GET /profitability HTTP/1.1" 200 188354 "-" "-" "162.222.227.123"

joeyjoneson Show HN: Debug bar and profiling tool for PHP with support for popular projects

This is sweet. If it did profiling as well it would be perfect!