Phew… fingers crossed a combination of bad behaviour and referrer karma has taken the meat out if the extra 10-15k page views incsub was getting every day and bandwidth looks like it’s back to normal.
Big thanks to D’Arcy for suggesting RK, much appreciated!
[...] Interesting stuff… so the measures I put in place seem to have calmed the bandwidth issues but the number of visitors is still ridiculously high (this is just incsub.org btw… not edublogs) although awstats thinks they are individuals… don’t see how I can suddenly have picked up an extra 2000 uniques a day though, wonder what’s up? [...]