Web Log of Greg Mathews

In theory a proxy server allows a user to surf the web anonymously, many students use a proxy to bypass school restrictions when surfing using the school network.

This week I discovered that a visitor to your site via a proxy could be detrimental, while checking the Google search results for one of my sites I found one such proxy imsosneaky.com actually stores the urls that people visit via their proxy and these urls get indexed in the search engine results. Go to Google and try the command site:imsosneaky.com and browse the results, you will find clone’s of pages on Yahoo and many other big sites.

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I am pleased to confirm that eventually Scriptlance did respond to my withdrawel request over the weekend and actually processed the withdrawel this morning (GMT) as promised.

I would still stick to my original advice though about paying freelancers on Scriptlance as thanks to exchange rates and various fee’s etc this has cost me more than £20 GBP ($40 USD)  which is a big downer and not an amount I would want to lose on a regular basis.

If you have ever used Scriptlance you may have noticed how slow the staff are to do anything, you withdraw your funds it takes them upto a week before they process it.

A few weeks ago I opened a project on SL and picked a programmer to do the work, I added the funds to my webmaster Scriptlancer account so that I can pay him via scriptlance. As it happens he failed to complete to project so I cancelled it and submit a withdraw request to withdraw the $490 that I had added to my account. Read the rest of this entry »

After looking at the script running onmysitenow.com and making a few changes to the mysql commands used it looks like the script is running much better, it is suprising the difference one small change to the mysql can make.

I may even look at the yzoo code and see if the same changes can be made to that aswell.

Greg

After further testing of onmysitenow.com we have found that at certain times the server can not cope with the amount of traffic it is receiving already so I have disabled the counter until I have looked to see if it can be made more efficient and if not is a new dedicated server required.

The current state of the script is fine until there are in excess of 400 hits in any one minute at this point it starts to lag and if that level of traffic continues for a period then it slows to a halt.

I will announce as soon as the site is fullly functional again but in the mean time you can still add the code to your sites and register for better statistical information of your current visitors.

Greg

Last week I announced a small site I was putting together onmysitenow.com.

I finished the site about a week ago and tested it by adding the counter to Yzoo and a few other sites. I used yzoo as a test bed as it gets a lot of traffic and if onmysitenow.com can handle it then it should be able to handle anything.

In the past week I have had to make changes to the script to make it faster and more efficient, that has meant that at the moment the rounded corner option for members has been removed.

Feel free to take a look, I have got to add things like help page etc but it is fully functional, please let me know what you think.

I am just knocking up a small site that allows you to display how many visitors that are currently viewing your site. It will be available for members and non members, members being able to view details of traffic for the past day or so.

The visitor counter will look similar to that shown on the right hand sidebar of this blog. Anyone who clicks on the counter will see a list of pages being viewed at that time. Members will be able to change the color, width and corner style of the counter, non members will get the box standard.

Keep an eye out here as I will update the blog as soon as the site is ready to go.

Greg

Just a quick note to say I am now offering domain name registrations via my site at firstfordomains.com so if you are looking for somewhere to manage your domains then feel free to pay us a visit.

We are also looking for resellers to resell the domain registration and DNS management service being offered at firstfordomains.com follow the Resellers link if you are interested.

Greg

It has been more than a week since I last posted, what am I like?

Well last week I gave the php programmer who I had employed to complete a project for me one last  chance, we agreed he would give me daily updates and be complete by Saturday (yesterday).

Surprise Surprise I got one update of his progress that was after I messaged him a few times and I received no other contact so yesterday I requested the project be cancelled again. He then made me lauch by saying ‘i regret not having this completed.if you need what’s done so far, just let me know and i’ll send it to you.’

So if you plan on using Scriptlance  I suggest you do not use the freelancer Coddy, he is unreliable.