Inkfrog Image Hosting

[JoJo]

Hey, anyone with an image hosted by Inkfrog has this put in it's place;

image.inkfrog.com/hotlink.gif

And really weird, take off the "hotlink.gif' at the end and see what it says:

image.inkfrog.com

That's pretty weird, I think they may have been hacked. (not because of us, LOL) If you have an account with them, (I don't) you should complain real real loudly...

[xpt626]

info on Inkfrog:

Hi all.. First of all let me apologize for this - we didn't think it would affect "ebay" users as well as "good" non eBay users - and we also didn't think it would affect so many normal non eBay users..

Over the last 3 weeks our bandwith usage has almost doubled because many users are now using inkFrog hosting for porn sites and other sites that aren't allowed. We thought we could fix the problem by using this hotlinking solution but as you can see many of you were affected. I certainly didn't want that to happen.

We have put everything back to normal now so all should be working for you. I'll try to track down the "bad guys" one by one and disable them that way ..

once again, sorry for scaring everyone

Greg

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the man responsible for the name "inkFrog"

[JoJo]

Thanks for the info Xpt, Eyesbleed has a lot of good stuff here stored at Inkfrog. No offense meant to Greg, but why else would someone NOT use a free site to host pictures? They use a pay site like his because, well duh, so they can hotlink!

[xpt626]

exactly.

I'm nuking my account with them, just wanted to pass on the info I found posted over there.

[FlamingPie]

Kinda like what happened with angelfire.

[xpt626]

I didn't mean to sound like I was leaving Inkfrog over this mixup -- I had cleaned my images out of there over the past couple of weeks. I just don't need a "pay" server, even at $4.95/mo.