Image uploader, reborneth!
I finally took the time to do this:
Long story short, someone exploited the uploading script I was previously using for my image uploading site. A backdoor was installed, giving them full reign over my account on the server which this site is hosted. Luckily, I caught this before anything malicious could happen, but needless to say, I was not pleased at the event.
While running this site for the past few years, I have enjoyed watching it grow, and have had a good time tinkering with it (mostly behind the scenes, many times banning the seemingly endless supply of Brazillian porn forums.. hmm).
Right before disabling the old uploading script, the site had peaked in usage with 8.4 MILLION requests (which includes each time an image is requested from a remote site, etc) with over 60,000 page views in one month. This may sound like small bananas compared to many sites, especially the multitude of hosting sites availible these days, but watching MY site (the site with nothing but a textbox for a filename and an upload button) get to there, from nothing, was exciting.
After the exploit, I honestly wasn’t planning to fix the site any time soon. When I came across Uploader only a few minutes ago, though, I was inspired to get things rolling again.
You do have to register an account to upload now, but registration is open to anyone. Please give it a shot.
Enjoy the uploading
-Justin
The old address (http://gonad.org/upload) now redirects to the new http://upload.gonad.org. Sleep now.
Fucking Sewer Shark. I’ll never beat that game). I’m a little out of touch.
