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KarmaMaster1507 2008-06-17, 20:27 #1
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Subject: Currently one user is online...and 311 guests?!
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So what's the deal?  Obviously this forum is nowhere near as popular as the .com was back in the glory days (ah, memories).  But I sincerely doubt there are 300 legimate "guests" browsing the forums right now.  Are there security issues with the type of forum this is?  Are there just a bunch of bots on the site right now?  It seems like 300 people browsing the forum would cause unwanted bandwith charges, especially if there's only less than 50 people actively viewing the site on a semi-regular basis.  So what gives?
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krazykit (Administrator) 2008-06-18, 13:22 #2
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If you've been paying attention, we've had a few times where riovolution went over the allotted bandwidth.  It seems 2 IPs were responsible for ludicrous amounts of data transfer.  I'd hazard a guess that the 300 are not all humans.
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Einkoro (Administrator) 2008-06-20, 13:43 #3
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It frequently hits 50k guests but the statistics software doesn't report anywhere near that many visitors or even page requests. o.0
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mocelet 2008-06-24, 16:06 #4
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There was a story on ElReg last week about a new module in AVG which prescans links in Google results, and how it was causing skewed stats on websites around the globe.

That could be it I guess...
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