@Gertjan Hi Gertjan,
(What I meant about BBcan "Fixing this" was not that he would fix UT1, but that pfBlockerng would be able to properly parse the profered link and install the categories.)
Yes the way the UT1 list was formed had occurred to me, mostly, except the details about the actual origin of the lists. I have taken your suggested steps really quite at the inception of our using pfBlocker, after abandoning Dan's Guardian. There are only a handful of sublists that I download, mostly the smut list with a couple of others. These I do individuall through groups, and that has reduced the size of the download from the way BBcan has it programmed in pfBlocker. That was to download the entire list and parse it.
I certainly suspected that UT1's server was being overwhelmed. It is often a response of providers to block those who do too many downloads. This was what I was suspecting on my end. I do indeed download once a week. However one my techs had this server at every hour. It is now at once a week too. Since the web administrator there isn´t known to me I really don´t know what is happening.
As far as php is concerned, I have read the pfBlockerng code and it does indeed remind me of basic. I have written in different basics, C, C++, C#, and older languages still, like Pascal, and some of the other offerings we learned in survey of computer languages, and some in an in house language that we have. I have written exes, libraries, drivers, and applications in machine code and assembly. Yada yada. What they stick in Docker and other like platforms I have not experienced, spending most of my time now trying to dominate Internet infrasture, and different firewalls, but mostly on pfSense.
As far as hardware is concerned, we are a small group so I have been buying used Dell Optiplexes with maybe 6th generation or earlier CPUs, I-7s and I put 16 gigs of ram, an SSD, and appropriate NICs, usually Intel based. The units themselves cost me 120 dollars each. Then there is the cost of the upgrades which is really quite cheap. This is overkill I realize, but we have had quite good service with units like these. I am maintaing 5 locations, with 4 of them using HA. There are other Linux servers involved too. It keeps me quite busy.
I apologize for not being more forthcoming with detail in what equipment I drive and what I do. I appreciate greatly your support, and the support of the forum. I have tried to contribute where I can: where there have been questions that I have answered for myself, so that I can share with others. Sometimes it works and people are helped.
God bless you Gertjan,
Roy
