People Will Hate You…

You know you're doing something right when some people begin to hate you. Whether it be from taking over their traffic source, to dominating a niche they are in, to whatever... The more you do, the more people will not like it.

This last week someone really decided that they hate my dad. My dad is also an internet marketer full time. He however, is an advertiser, not a publisher / affiliate like I am. He's on the other side of the spectrum.

As my dad's sites continue to dominate the niches he is in, more people are getting frustrated and launching attacks at him.

Just last week a guy decided to use bots to download files off my dad's sites to the tune of 50 mbps steady downloads. We blocked him and thought that everything would be fine and dandy. I kept monitoring it in Web host manager (bad idea btw) and thought things were fine.

This was until yesterday when I received a bandwidth overage notice. I looked and realized the guy was at it again to the tune of almost 5000 gigs of bandwidth. It wasn't enough to bog the server, but enough to drain maximum bandwidth. That little overage right there is estimated at almost $2800 bucks. I'm working with Liquidweb on trying to see what they can do about reducing the bill since... the unmetered port is only $1100. I will be posting the outcome of that when I know for sure.

So there you have it... If you want to be successful, learn to get thick skin. While I was extremely upset at this at first I've come to peace about it. Sometimes, we just can't stress about issues we have no control over. All we can do is try as hard as possible and hope and pray for the best.

PS > If you know this guy, tell him I need a favor when I find an address.