Thread: Rapidshare Downloads are At It

Over the last few days, I've had people go to my proxies and download 20MB+ of stuff from RapidShare. In the last two days I've had over 50MB of files downloaded in just the last 48 hours.

I shrugged it off because it didn't affect me, but the last 24 hours my server crashed twice and it's been going slow and timing out the entire day.

I have banned Rapidshare (using a PHP redirect instead of the Glype Blacklist, I can't get the blacklist to work ).

Just a warning, I recommend you ban Rapidshare as well!

Go to /etc/hosts on your server and add.

Code:

0.0.0.0 www.rapidshare.com rapidshare.com

It will override the DNS of the site so it will load the cpanel welcome page. (or whatever resolves to localhost on your machine )

Thanks, but I prefer to just leave it as a simple PHP edit.

Final results for the last 24 hours (before the ban) on GuardTunnel.com (Unblockbyproxy.com also had a lot of hits, but not as much):

RapidShare Hits - 217984
CPU - 25.86%
Memory: 101.89%
Total File Downloads: 65MB
Bandwidth Usage: 150GB

Luckily my server has been running pretty fast since the first post this morning, so I'm all set. Almost got in trouble with ServInt because I had to convince them to let me run proxies in the first place

The host file would be more efficient.

aha !! This is not the right solution :P

Just Go for Download Limit , Keep it 2 - 5 MB .If the browse limit is more it will return a error.This way user cant download such big files from any website.Today you banned rapidshare , but tomorrow they will download from megaupload.com ...

Originally Posted by chetan

aha !! This is not the right solution :P

Just Go for Download Limit , Keep it 2 - 5 MB .If the browse limit is more it will return a error.This way user cant download such big files from any website.Today you banned rapidshare , but tomorrow they will download from megaupload.com ...

It's not that they were downloading big files, because they weren't really. And it wasn't just one person. It was a bunch of people downloading A LOT of files from RapidShare.

I am keeping it banned for now, my proxy is for web surfing, not downloading.

Originally Posted by Zash

It's not that they were downloading big files, because they weren't really. And it wasn't just one person. It was a bunch of people downloading A LOT of files from RapidShare.

I am keeping it banned for now, my proxy is for web surfing, not downloading.

I know that , thats why keep a browse limit , so no one can download any stuff from any website , But can browse website easily

This worked a lot for me , i got a huge traffic but i handled it very well by setting some variables , so server load and bandwidth was in control.

I mean this one on includes/setting.php

Code:

/*****************************************************************
* Transfer options
******************************************************************/

// Time to wait for the connection (seconds) [0 for no limit]
$CONFIG['connection_timeout'] = 4;

// Time to allow for the entire transfer (seconds) [0 for no limit]
$CONFIG['transfer_timeout'] = 50;

// Allow resuming of transfers
$CONFIG['resume_transfers'] = false; //Take this as false 

// Maximum filesize permitted for downloads through the proxy (bytes) [0 for no limit]
$CONFIG['max_filesize'] = 1024 * 1024 * 5 ; //This Means 5 mb

// Speed limit for target to proxy downloads (bytes/second) [0 for no limit]
$CONFIG['download_speed_limit'] = 10240 * 100;

// Queue transfers up so we only have one transfer running at a time per user
$CONFIG['queue_transfers'] = true;

I have set the download limit to 2mb. So

I have banned Rapidshare (using a PHP redirect instead of the Glype Blacklist, I can't get the blacklist to work ).

What was the code you used and where did you put it?