Bob`s Tech Blog

Well i have finally completed the first phase of my changer over of our indoor cams to cms. Why did I move the indoor cams to a cms? Here`s the deal. With a popular family web cam site comes lots of attention from both great people, and people who are sick. The sicks ones have shown themselves over the last 10 years or so and iv done my best to get rid of them by banning at the server level with .htaccess. However, some of these blocked people come back using googles cached pages which basically gives them access to the frames where my video streams are located. Then i have to ban them at the video server level. So you would think that would be enough right? Nope. They then come back using one of the many free proxy servers located around the world, then they have full access to my web site and cam streams once again.

So, iv been toying around with the idea of using a cms platform over the last few months, trying several different cms packages (8 to be exact) until i found this one. Its far from perfect but what it does is allow access to our indoor cams by user account. This has several advantages. Now all our cam stream pages are protected from anonymous viewers plus Google cant cache their direct URL`s or pages, and if it did it wouldn't matter because you have to be logged in to the system to access them.

I don't like the look (at all) but hopefully ill learn how to customize it more in the future.

Bottom line, knowing that pedophiles and people that want to follow my wife around the house all day are stopped in their tracks (or i can stop someone if they become a problem) is worth the switch to, and look of the cms platform.

I want to be sure to add that everyone is still welcome to view our cams. Just register for a free account which the activation is instant much of the time, but at the most the system could take a couple hours to get your activation email sent (depending how clogged opentransfer is at that time). We wont spam you, or even email you for that matter nor can anyone even access your email address or other info.

-Bob