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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#42Don'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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#43Yeesh.
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#44There 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.
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#45There 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.
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.
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#46Don'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.
That is pretty frigging mean to exploit such an obvious problem!
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#48Don'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.
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.
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#49Earlier 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?
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#50Don'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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