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Re: NeoCities

#41
post #22

Don't use this for anything you view as important. I just checked and there is no collision detection for usernames. You can signup for an account using any name and your account will seemingly just replace the previous created account. That is a big enough and obvious enough flaw that it also makes we wonder if this is just a phishing expedition or a way to mine email addresses.

I'm logged in as "www" right now.

Sorry, I probably overwrote your stuff :/

Re: NeoCities

#42
post #22

Don't use this for anything you view as important. I just checked and there is no collision detection for usernames. You can signup for an account using any name and your account will seemingly just replace the previous created account. That is a big enough and obvious enough flaw that it also makes we wonder if this is just a phishing expedition or a way to mine email addresses.

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Re: NeoCities

#43
PEOPLE. This is clearly not intended as a business. Stop asking about the "business model." It strikes me as just being a cool side project that enables people to make websites. That's it.

Yeesh.

Re: NeoCities

#44
post #40

There are 61054 web site spaces remaining. After that, we need your help to get another server. Does that mean he's running 61k sites on a single server? Even if each site gets one single visitor per day, that 61k visitors for the Server. There is no way the server can manage that traffic. Sorry, but do you really want a static site? Just pay for a good one.

Assuming you're not being sarcastic: a small vps could serve an order of magnitude more visitors per day than that when it's just static files, many orders of magnitude more on a well configured server and many many many times more than that on a powerful server. The bottleneck for this will probably be bandwidth.

Re: NeoCities

#45
post #40

There are 61054 web site spaces remaining. After that, we need your help to get another server. Does that mean he's running 61k sites on a single server? Even if each site gets one single visitor per day, that 61k visitors for the Server. There is no way the server can manage that traffic. Sorry, but do you really want a static site? Just pay for a good one.

Aside from the other evidence that this is terribly thought out, serving 61,000 static pageviews (or if average pages per visitor is more like 2: 120,000) shouldn't be a problem on even a cheap server.

Even with uneven traffic that's probably 4-5 pageviews/second at most. The cheapest linode or AWS instance can handle that for serving static files.

Re: NeoCities

#46
post #22

Don't use this for anything you view as important. I just checked and there is no collision detection for usernames. You can signup for an account using any name and your account will seemingly just replace the previous created account. That is a big enough and obvious enough flaw that it also makes we wonder if this is just a phishing expedition or a way to mine email addresses.

It appears now people have caught on quick - and are replacing sites that people actually worked on with "SITE HACKED" messages.

That is pretty frigging mean to exploit such an obvious problem!

Re: NeoCities

#48
post #22

Don't use this for anything you view as important. I just checked and there is no collision detection for usernames. You can signup for an account using any name and your account will seemingly just replace the previous created account. That is a big enough and obvious enough flaw that it also makes we wonder if this is just a phishing expedition or a way to mine email addresses.

Check out his tweet that started this: https://twitter.com/kyledrake/statuses/337706291801763841

He started a month ago. The 'Just Ship It' mantra basically declares that crappy bugs like this are A-OK. I don't know why you're surprised.

Re: NeoCities

#49
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The site will very easily pay for itself with donations. It's not that expensive to serve static HTML, especially when you are using Nginx and sendfile.

Does Nginx use sendfile under the hood or is it something you would use separately?

It's an option you can choose at compilation time, I believe.

Re: NeoCities

#50
post #22

Don't use this for anything you view as important. I just checked and there is no collision detection for usernames. You can signup for an account using any name and your account will seemingly just replace the previous created account. That is a big enough and obvious enough flaw that it also makes we wonder if this is just a phishing expedition or a way to mine email addresses.

I'm logged in as "www" right now.

Funny enough, that is exactly how I found the problem. I created a www account (I am almost ashamed to say that was my first instinct, try to break the system before you decide the system is worthy of your use). I ended up logging out and I couldn't log back in with the same password. In hindsight, someone must have created another www account after I did and before I tried to login again. I then tried creating another www account and it worked. I then logged out and tried registering with a different username twice just in case www was a special case. The same thing happened, the second account just replaced the first account.
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