by Tim on January 27, 2012
I've been trying out a service called CloudFlare on my blog and ClickTrackProfit. The goal of CF is to add a layer of security to your website.
It blocks bots, spammers, and viruses from even getting to your server. So it's like a firewall. But at the same time it caches your static content like images and javascripts. So it's like a CDN.
To my surprise it's worked very good and was incredibly easy to setup. All you do is transfer your DNS to them, and they take care of the rest. It's like magic. It's been working so great and easy that I thought it wasn't doing anything!
But it is, and it's reduced the load by about 50%. A small fraction is the bots being blocked, but the majority is the system caching content making it faster and reducing our bandwidth bill. Cool!
Without going into details, I haven't tried it with any of our traffic exchanges. We have a unique situation where at the present time CloudFlare wouldn't work with our setup, but I am working on it so we can. The benefits so far have been worth it!
by Tim on January 26, 2012
I figure this is the best way to update everyone who uses the free Site Scanner on their traffic exchange. And for the members out there who are finding their sites banned, it also helps them knowing it was updated too ;-)
Basically many sites use widgets like Twitter, and those widgets tend to have little beacons and codes that look like nasty frame breakers and other problem scripts. So adding the widget gets your site blocked.
Well now owners can add that Twitter javascript to their whitelist and the system will know that it's OK to have that script and it's not really a problem. Putting the power in the hands of the owners allows them to decide what's OK and what's not OK.
Now a common problem with owners using the checker, they don't know where to change their settings. I put the link below, please memorize it:
http://www.tetoolbox.com/checker/
Just note you must be logged into the TEtoolbox account set as the owner for that exchange to edit the settings. You can do whitelists, blacklists, and even manage the global ban options ;-)
