Gah, having my first minor incsub bandwidth crisis (who’d have thunk it!) in particular this seems to be the reult of blogtalk suddenly receiving 38099 page views this month…. eh …. and googlebot using up 3.5 Gig???
First 19 days of August..
Googlebot 110576 3.73 GB
MSNBot 34598 448.76 MB
Inktomi Slurp 20245 387.28 MB
Am going to have to find a fix soon.. my current bandwidth use at incsub is looking towards 20 Gig this month which is pretty darn unsustainable!
Presumably edublogs.org is on the same host? Googlebot will be loving all the rapidly updated blogging material…
Not sure how you’ve set up your server, but Godaddy is insanely cheap. I get 25Gig/month for something like $3US/month. Godaddy.com
Yeh, reckon I could do with thinking about a switch… edublogs.org is actually on a different package but I reckon it might be spam attack… am installing http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/ left right and centre at the mo.
You could check out Referrer Karma - it’s a bit of PHP loving that will nuke any request from a spamroach, by checking the referrer URL, banned IP ranges, etc… It blocks several thousand referrer spam attempts every day on my blog.
And, it’s just PHP, so it can work on any PHP-based site (including WordPress)
http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/ref-karma/
There’s also the awesome Spam Karma 2 plugin, which blocks 100% of the spam attempts on my blog as well. OK, maybe it’s only blocking 99.8% - I occasionally have to moderate, but nothing nasty gets through.
http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma
Thanks for that D’Arcy, have installed so will now sit back and see how we go… BB didn’t do anything to fix it (I think) and referrers are a major problem…
Let us know if we can help out - we’ve got a monthly bandwidth limit of 1Tb, which we’re not really using much of at the moment.
*Flushes green with envy*
:) I… hope… I’ve tamed it with referrerkarma, we shall see.
never thought I’d say this but I hope I don’t get pointed to by anyone important in the next week or so ;)