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10-01-2010, 06:38 AM
So I have a website for my students, mr-robinson.com
It has worked fine for two years.
A month ago, I wanted to exchange a :bou::bou::bou::bou:load of files between a friend who lived 100 miles away. Instead of driving to each other, I gave him the ftp info to the site, set up a non public directory for him, and had him upload away.
When I was at work (aka a high school), I downloaded all that :bou::bou::bou::bou: at blazing fast speeds. We're talking like 80 gigs of stuff. I mean... I'm a dick.
Anyway, two problems resulted from this little exchange.
1. My webhost (lunarpages) quickly suspended my account for uploading copyrighted information (somewhere in the 80 gigs). Opps. I didn't know you were looking so closely. I quickly deleted the stuff in question, dealt with all the red tape, and the account was unsuspended about 1 week later.
2. My website has never worked (aka loaded) again <I>at my work (the high school)</i>. I get time out errors. Or whatever it is called when nothing loads. This is the real problem. I've been trying to figure out what is going on. I guess there are two possibilities. One, lunarpages didn't like all the traffic coming from that IP address and banned it (I've asked them and they have denied this). Or two, my school didn't like all the bandwidth being funneled to that website and blocked the IP address.
So how the heck do I figure out what is going on? How can I check who is blocking what? It has been a month now. I've sent emails to the IT at my school, but they are clueless. I need a computer genius to tell me how to pinpoint the culprit, and then how to tell IT where to look to fix things.
I million thank yous.
It has worked fine for two years.
A month ago, I wanted to exchange a :bou::bou::bou::bou:load of files between a friend who lived 100 miles away. Instead of driving to each other, I gave him the ftp info to the site, set up a non public directory for him, and had him upload away.
When I was at work (aka a high school), I downloaded all that :bou::bou::bou::bou: at blazing fast speeds. We're talking like 80 gigs of stuff. I mean... I'm a dick.
Anyway, two problems resulted from this little exchange.
1. My webhost (lunarpages) quickly suspended my account for uploading copyrighted information (somewhere in the 80 gigs). Opps. I didn't know you were looking so closely. I quickly deleted the stuff in question, dealt with all the red tape, and the account was unsuspended about 1 week later.
2. My website has never worked (aka loaded) again <I>at my work (the high school)</i>. I get time out errors. Or whatever it is called when nothing loads. This is the real problem. I've been trying to figure out what is going on. I guess there are two possibilities. One, lunarpages didn't like all the traffic coming from that IP address and banned it (I've asked them and they have denied this). Or two, my school didn't like all the bandwidth being funneled to that website and blocked the IP address.
So how the heck do I figure out what is going on? How can I check who is blocking what? It has been a month now. I've sent emails to the IT at my school, but they are clueless. I need a computer genius to tell me how to pinpoint the culprit, and then how to tell IT where to look to fix things.
I million thank yous.