202.156.6.19 - Who the hell are you??
As of 9:40:31 pm on 27th Feb, all your HTTP
200 OKs shall become HTTP 403 Forbiddens!
Muahahaha! (Click for full size)
You have been accessing my site constantly since the day I started blogging about Tammy. You lao tiko you… You have been reloading each goddamn permalink related to the Tammy NYP story ONCE PER MINUTE for the past few days. As of 21:40hrs on 27th Feb, you have single-handedly contributed 45024 hits, spread over 10535 page loads. You have single-handedly sucked up 830MB of bandwidth, including all automated captcha images over the past week. I have no idea why you are skimming my data, just waiting for an update. Haven’t you got a life? What are you doing with all my data anyway? Are you mirroring it somewhere, trolling for hits? Haven’t you heard of RSS?
You leech.
As of 9.40pm and exactly 30 seconds on 27th Feb, YOU ARE BANNED.
//not that you’ll be able to read this anyway…
UPDATE: After further analysis of my logs, it seems that whoever this is has some sort of program which trawls the net, by simply querying various search engines with certain specified keyphrases, then loads whatever comes up, and keeps refreshing the page every minute. This stupid program searches google.com.sg and hotjobs.com (wtf), for the words “tammy”, “nyp” and “video”. It searches yahoo.com.sg for the phrase “tammy at Singapore”, Technorati for “tammy nyp” and God knows where else for what other phrases. And because this blog shows up on all these results, it’s loading my pages from EACH of these search results.
i.e. I have 4 permalinks on Tammy, and naturally my main site will show up as part of the results too; so that makes 5 results per search engine. Since this idiot is querying once per minute, assuming he hits me on 5 different search engines, that makes 25 freaking page loads per minute, 100 every 4 minutes, and 1500 per hour.
Dumbass.
You might want to turn on gzip compression for http. It will increase the server load but reduce your bandwith greatly. But then again, maybe your hosting provider don’t have such and option available.
interesting. if i remember correctly i saw this option somehre in cpanel once upon a time.. then again i could be wrong.
thanks… shall go look.