- Bandwidth spike on one site
- Posted by Foxglove54321 on February 19th, 2004
Yesterday a single visitor to one of my domains caused a bandwidth spike,
visiting each page around 500 times. The referring url was
cust-209-63-145-207.bbsc.net
which seems to be a broadband provider. It just hit that domain, and didn't
seem to follow any links. Does anyone have an idea what is going on here?
Surely an email sucker or a copyright checker would only have to visit each url
once?
I think I'll ban it with .htaccess, just looking into how to do that now.
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- Posted by GreyWyvern on February 19th, 2004
On 19 Feb 2004 00:31:47 GMT, Foxglove54321 <foxglove54321@aol.compost.net>
wrote:
Banning IPs which cause spikes is a little like locking the door after
your house has been burgled. If the offender repeats the performance then
ban them, but otherwise it could've just been a bot gone buggy.
I recently got 9000 hits in one day from an IP in Mexico (my daily normal
for *all* IP's is 5000), and did I ban them? No. It hasn't happened
since so what difference would it make?
Grey
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- Posted by Fat Sam on February 19th, 2004
"Foxglove54321" <foxglove54321@aol.compost.net> wrote in message
news:20040218193147.19027.00002314@mb-m28.aol.com...
Have you checked that broadband providers homepage?....Maybe they had added
a link to your site as it seems to be quite a usefull resource.....
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- Posted by Foxglove54321 on February 20th, 2004
I didn't see anything there, but I doubt it. I'm not talking about the site in
my sig, but another that allows people to sign up and post a profile. If it was
normal viewers I would see at least a few signups, and the pattern of pageviews
wouldn't have been so regular.
I did recently boot someone off for using the site for inappropriately
advertising a web development company, hence the paranoia. It viewed 33 000
pages over about 3 hours, but it's stopped now so I suppose I may have been
overreacting.
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