I deal with these issues pretty frequently and I agree totaly with you. Development costs are much higher than server costs in most cases. I am developing a site right now that will cost about $150,000 to design, code, test and launch. The hardware will initially consist of Linux with Apache, PHP, and Mysql running on a $2500 machine. Later it may need a few machines, a load balancer and an Oracle database on a $5000 machine. The hardware cost will never get anywhere close to the software cost though.
Reuven Lerner, the author of Linux Journal's nifty At The Forge column, wrote a really cool Apache module in perl named Apache::CodeRed and available from cpan here. This helped out with my codered hits and made me feel like I might be helping get rid of the stupid thing.
I modified (search and replace..hehe) Apache::CodeRed by inserting "Nimda" where "CodeRed" had been and put it in perl's @INC. I also had to change the Apache config file to pass requests for/scripts to Apache::Nimda by adding the lines:
As soon as telocity's mail server comes back up (another nimda victim?) I'll email Mr. Lerner and see if he is interested in making a more general perl Mod to deal with all these annoying exploits. Maybe if the people who admin these rouge boxes got as many emails as I get breakin attempts they'd get on the ball and fix their machines...but I kinda doubt it.
Arrest this man! He has broken the most sacred of our nations laws.....the DMCA. This evil man has created willfully a method to defeat an encryption system. He is reverse engineering something for God's Sake!!! He must hang!
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I deal with these issues pretty frequently and I agree totaly with you. Development costs are much higher than server costs in most cases. I am developing a site right now that will cost about $150,000 to design, code, test and launch. The hardware will initially consist of Linux with Apache, PHP, and Mysql running on a $2500 machine. Later it may need a few machines, a load balancer and an Oracle database on a $5000 machine. The hardware cost will never get anywhere close to the software cost though.
This is my favorite comment. The sarcasm is a joy to read.
The world needs more people like this man to bring us a bit of sense.
Reuven Lerner, the author of Linux Journal's nifty At The Forge column, wrote a really cool Apache module in perl named Apache::CodeRed and available from cpan here. This helped out with my codered hits and made me feel like I might be helping get rid of the stupid thing.
/scripts to Apache::Nimda by adding the lines:
/script>
I modified (search and replace..hehe) Apache::CodeRed by inserting "Nimda" where "CodeRed" had been and put it in perl's @INC. I also had to change the Apache config file to pass requests for
PerlModule Apache::Nimda
<Location
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Nimda
</Location>
As soon as telocity's mail server comes back up (another nimda victim?) I'll email Mr. Lerner and see if he is interested in making a more general perl Mod to deal with all these annoying exploits. Maybe if the people who admin these rouge boxes got as many emails as I get breakin attempts they'd get on the ball and fix their machines...but I kinda doubt it.
Arrest this man! He has broken the most sacred of our nations laws.....the DMCA. This evil man has created willfully a method to defeat an encryption system. He is reverse engineering something for God's Sake!!! He must hang!