I have several websites where I have Google Adsense Ads running. Today, when I was browsing my websites, I was surprised to see some shady-looking ads showing. The ads appeared to be of companies called “Poster Gully”, “Styleever”, “fashion equation.com” etc. If you peer closely at the ads, you will find an icon towards the
Category: Misc
My Site VPS2.Me Is The Subject Of A DDOS Attack (!)
All of a sudden this site went offline even though other sites on the same VPS operating through different I. P. Addresses were in operation. I shot off a mail to ServerMania to ask what was going on. The reply surprised me: “Hello, Your machine has been the target of a DDoS attack, we have
Leapswitch Handles 8 Gbps DDOS Attack Well
I have a VPS with Leapswitch Networks at their Pune Data Center. The Data Center is owned and operated by Tata Communications. I am quite happy with the uptime of the VPS and the speed and quality of support offered by Leapswitch. The pricing of the VPS is also rock-bottom. All of a sudden I
Why the new bitly design sucks
Bitly is my favourite url shortener. A few things I like particularly about it are: (i) it has had a very simple & uncluttered design; (ii) you can customize the shortened url. So instead of some gibberish like bit.ly/xyres, you can use bit.ly/cool_post(iii) you can monitor the number of clicks each link is getting and