{"id":4412,"date":"2016-09-12T17:05:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T17:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2020-07-26T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T14:14:07","slug":"the-joys-of-webmastering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/09\/12\/the-joys-of-webmastering\/","title":{"rendered":"The joys of webmastering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after various struggles and craziness the <a href=\"http:\/\/youngwizards.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YoungWizards.com site<\/a> finally has its WordPress install running for all to see, and the old Drupal install is packed away, and I can look forward to a week or three of fixing busted links and installing URL redirects and handling other delights. It&#8217;s all a bit shambolic at the moment, but at least (in the sense of being blissfully unhacked) it&#8217;s clean.<\/p>\n<p>Some other issues, though, are raising their heads as I watch the new install bed in. The security software&#8217;s &#8220;live traffic&#8221; function is showing me the most charming things! Especially spammers&#8217; scripts battering futilely at the spot where the <em>Errantry Concordance<\/em> wiki used to be. I&#8217;m taking notes and blocking IPs and having <em>so<\/em> much fun. (I don&#8217;t <em>want<\/em> to block all of Russia, there are fans of the YW books in Russia, but, you know, if I <em>have<\/em> to&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Less fun, though, and more of an annoyance, are the bandwidth thieves. One New York Jets website in particular keeps calling and <em>calling<\/em> and CALLING on the server that holds the YW discussion forums, trying to pull up a particular smiley.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this smiley isn&#8217;t even <em>on<\/em> my server any more. God knows how many years ago it was there. But this damn website is hitting the Forums about once every five seconds, and this annoys me. Yes, teeny tiny bits of bandwidth are involved in the short term, but how long has this been going on? It&#8217;s just not <em>right.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to break the site in question of this habit by the most straightforward means I can think of. I am loading the graphic you see below into the directory and giving it the filename in question. We&#8217;ll see how long it takes for the website&#8217;s sysadmins to kill that particular link&#8230; but I&#8217;m betting it won&#8217;t take more than a day or so, as the image is 800&#215;800 px and the sentiment is, well, not that polite.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Worlds_Smallest_Dick_Nonexistent_File_Full.jpg\" alt=\"worlds_smallest_dick_nonexistent_file_full\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Worlds_Smallest_Dick_Nonexistent_File_Full.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Worlds_Smallest_Dick_Nonexistent_File_Full-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Worlds_Smallest_Dick_Nonexistent_File_Full-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Worlds_Smallest_Dick_Nonexistent_File_Full-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Worlds_Smallest_Dick_Nonexistent_File_Full-585x585.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Worlds_Smallest_Dick_Nonexistent_File_Full-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Worlds_Smallest_Dick_Nonexistent_File_Full-640x640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I know some people use explicit porn images for this kind of thing. Not my style, though it&#8217;s fun to think about.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And now let&#8217;s see how good their sysadmins are. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after various struggles and craziness the YoungWizards.com site finally has its WordPress install running for all to see, and the old Drupal install is packed away, and I can&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,631,553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrivia","category-online-life-2","category-things-that-piss-you-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The joys of webmastering - Out of Ambit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today&#039;s online adventure, DD indulges her baser instincts. 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