Andrew Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 As the owner of penguinbooks.com ("Books About Penguins!") I get a few hundred page views every month -- mostly folks looking for penguin.com. All of a sudden, though, my page views have skyrocketed and I'm getting messages about bandwidth being exceeded. As far as I can see there isn't a link to the page from someplace major (e.g., BoingBoing). I do see a lot of page views from xxxx.proxy.aol.com people, which is funny because the site consists of a single page. If anyone can shed any light on this, I'd appreciate it. I'm concerned that maybe something is going *out* via the penguinbooks.com server. Thanks for any help! Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-RobertM Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Andrew, I would suggest opening up a help desk ticket to check whats going on. You said you checked your logs and verified nothing strange going on there, and that there was no similiar links coming in ? wish I could be more help RobertM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 28, 2005 Author Share Posted January 28, 2005 It doesn't look like there's a single source coming in (either a single link out there, or a single IP address hitting it over and over). There are all those AOL people, but that's it. But I may be reading my stats wrong, or missing something important. My main concern is that there's nothing outgoing from penguinbooks.com. Help ticket seems the right idea. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Guru Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 I peaked at your server and account, looks like your getting more NORMAL traffic than usual. I do not see anything to be concerned with ATM. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 28, 2005 Author Share Posted January 28, 2005 Good, then I won't worry too much. I can always just block AOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Guru Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 I had our lead admin also peak at your account, everything looks good. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 28, 2005 Author Share Posted January 28, 2005 Cool, and thanks. I wish all these visitors were coming from one place. If it was a wrong link I could tell the site owner, or if it was deliberate I could enjoy the fame. [grin] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 Could it be some link from within AOL? I mean, part of their system is closed to the outside world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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