But Jim--
What is there to finger the server folks for links to stuff we put on
their server?
This is the WWW, which truly is a Wild Wild Web. Watch for cons, but
don't fall for snake-oil as a cure-all. We must guard against
letting our anger over messes get directed anywhere but at true
culprits.
If I understand at all--
moving your website would not stop any referred traffic UNLESS they
are coming via the raw IP numbers instead of the typical method which
looks up the numbers--
http://www.mtgenweb.org/-- i.e. that service
somebody (like Karen?) is paying for each year-- which glitch caused
the last loss of access because the referral survice was not there to
redirect from
mtgenweb.org to the address numbers (###.###.###.###).
Unless I misunderstand, we could have accessed the web pages via the
proper numbers, had we known them and how to use them. Only the
referral we have come to depend on was down. Moving to a new server
would result in changing where the
mtgenweb.org would redirect to, so
users would not know it had changed. That is the convenience bought
for the $10 or more per year per domain name.
New provider? Are you already paying for server space with your ISP
bill like we are? We just decided to make use of it. Thus we don't
have that webalizer to look and and care! Works for me! (hoping what
I don't know won't hurt me! :-)
Ben
Ben & Carla Andrus
| BeaverheadGenWeb county coordinators and
| webmasters for BeaverheadGenWeb &
| BeaverHead Hunter Genealogy Society
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On 2010 Feb 5, Fri, at 11:44 am, Jim Petermann wrote:
To answer both your and John's questions; these are not emails to
me. I'm used to spam and just deal with it.
Our MTGenWeb sites have a feature called "webalizer" that lets you
see where visitors to your site come from. One of the things it
tells you is what other sites have linked or sent visitors to your
pages.
For instance
http://wibaux.mtgenweb.org/webalizer
You can see that if I go down to the section that lists "referrers"
most of them are crap Viagra sites and the like.
I'm sure this was not the case prior to the Great Server Screw-up,
but I can't prove it because the provider has erased the stats
before that and you can only go back to November 2009.
If at all possible, I'd lobby for a new provider. I'm even willing
to kick in some bucks to fund it if that's what it takes.
Jim Petermann