... if this blog disappears in the near future.
Whatever was banging on it last week is still banging on it today, and none of my WordPress caching or robots.txt or hot-link-breaking tricks seem to have any effect. Something is hitting this site enough that it's pissing-off my ISP. And I'm apparently powerless to stop it. It's a low level, but constant, banging. It doesn't look like a big DOS attack or anything (and really, why would anyone bother?). It's just enough extra hits (which turns into memory usage and CPU time) to push my usage stats too high for my hosting plan.
I'm guessing that the problem is web spider bots, but they don't seem to respect the "GO THE FUCK AWAY" sign I posted on the front door.
So, if this goes down again, I'll be shopping for a new host. I guess.
Oh jeez, that sucks. Is there any consistency to the requesting ip address and/or user agent? If there was you could add “deny from” lines to your .htaccess file, that would greatly decrease the amount of resources used to deal with the requests.
looks like at least 9 of the top ten requesters are bots, and i can’t identify the other one.
nothing looks promising in the ip stats. can’t really tell where the bots are coming from.
the dynamic text for the pie filter sure gets a lot of traffic, though. yow.
Boo!
…when a crack in the ice appears under your feet.
Have you been happy with your host so far? You don’t have to out them by name, but it’s too bad that whatever plan you’re on doesn’t accommodate the level of traffic a gosh-darn bot throws at you.
Seems like it’s pretty common for shared hosting providers to advertise “unlimited” or “unmetered” plans. Maybe they don’t stand behind that when the slashdot hits the fan, I don’t know.
yeah, none of them tell you about the CPU and memory limits. bandwidth, disk space? i don’t come close to maxing-out those. but WordPress apparently eats memory and CPU like crazy, in the presence of bots.
hope that green bar goes back to normal.
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