Scourge of the Internet
My wife got a phone call from her aunt saying that our website was down. "Odd," I thought, but when I checked it I too saw the "Bandwidth exceeded" message meaning that something bad had happened. A little nosing around revealed the answer: Trackback pings! Lots of them. maybe 8000 or so, and for some reason they caused 4GB of traffic over the past couple of days, which is double my previous maximum.
Turns out that I had inadvertently left Moveable Type configured to allow Trackback pings on some of my blog entries, and some spammer bombarded me. Loser. I was faced with the task of navigating the Movable Type interface to try and find and delete 8000 spam links. This is not a pleasant thought, and after manually deleting about 400 of them I gave up and went and manually deleted the database file (10M or so). That's probably the beginning of the end for Movable Type and me. I doubt that torching a database file is a very good idea. Unfortunately I've got a lot of 'content' on MT that I'd like to archive somehow before I remove it from the server completely. Of course, I guess that's a problem with Blogger too -- the content is easily accessible from the web, but as far as I can tell, not too easy to move around. I faced a similar problem when I wanted to move from MT to Blogger. The obvious "export from MT/import to Blogger" functionality was just missing.
Somebody should write that program.
Update: It turns out that (almost) half the problem is already solved. Moveable Type does indeed have a very convenient export function that has allowed me to preserve my old content for posterity on my own media. Now I just have to figure out what to do with it.
Turns out that I had inadvertently left Moveable Type configured to allow Trackback pings on some of my blog entries, and some spammer bombarded me. Loser. I was faced with the task of navigating the Movable Type interface to try and find and delete 8000 spam links. This is not a pleasant thought, and after manually deleting about 400 of them I gave up and went and manually deleted the database file (10M or so). That's probably the beginning of the end for Movable Type and me. I doubt that torching a database file is a very good idea. Unfortunately I've got a lot of 'content' on MT that I'd like to archive somehow before I remove it from the server completely. Of course, I guess that's a problem with Blogger too -- the content is easily accessible from the web, but as far as I can tell, not too easy to move around. I faced a similar problem when I wanted to move from MT to Blogger. The obvious "export from MT/import to Blogger" functionality was just missing.
Somebody should write that program.
Update: It turns out that (almost) half the problem is already solved. Moveable Type does indeed have a very convenient export function that has allowed me to preserve my old content for posterity on my own media. Now I just have to figure out what to do with it.
posted by Brent at 3:29 PM
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