Posted: 04 May 2004 at 11:33am | IP Logged

I'm still in demo mode, but just to give a quick praise to these guys....

We noticed last week that our bandwidth usage was around 80% of a 10mbps port and it was not consistant with what our surfers were using.

After carefull examination and hours of searching online, we discovered about 50 websites that had hot-linked to our movies, pictures, and mp3 and claiming it as their own!

I attempted to discuss it with their webmasters and they were quick to remove them, to only find the next day something else was posted.

Instead of spending my time reasoning with other webmasters, I decided to surf around for a solution and that is when I discovered Helicon.

I studied the help files and setup a quick filter condition/rule and while watching my network usage on task manager, as soon as I saved my configuratoin file, my network usage dropped from 80% down to an expected 5%!!!!

I redirected all of the would be thiefs to an advertisement banner for my site, basically telling all of their users that they're thiefs and that the real content could be found on my site.

Literally within days, our membership has grown as well as our revenues.  Without isapirewrite we would have less money coming in and more money going out!

Thanks Helicon, you have no idea how valueable your product is.  I'm more than happy to pay your rates, I've made my money in the first 2 days of using it!

Gary Lantz
MKFHosting.com