Website/host.

[Cringer]

Ok, so you guys killed the site. That surprised me, sorry about the confusion and delay that resulted from it. We have never come that close to the 10 gig bandwidth mark. I think the closest we came was 8 gigs or so.

As far as getting a site with more bandwidth (Jave), I don't think we need it. We don't get up there much, and next offseason I will watch it closely. One reason I have come to like this host is because they have great service. I emailed them Friday morning and in literally 10 minutes or so I had an email back saying they would give us an extra gig to get through the day. An extra gig I had not asked for, and they did not charge for. And they were fast about it.

[Coder]

Any statistics available to see what caused the sudden surge? My webhost has a bunch of tools for checking popular pages etc.

[Cringer]

Any statistics available to see what caused the sudden surge? My webhost has a bunch of tools for checking popular pages etc.

Overall it just looks like higher activity from guys. Stupid googlebots may have played a small role, but looking at details I don't really think it did much.

The host has actually kept all our stats for us, even when the original host was sold, and with the server change. That was a nice surprise. So comparing it to last off-season, which was October...

  Hits 	Files 	Pages 	Visits 	Sites 	KBytes 	Visits 	Pages 	Files 	Hits

Mar 2006 	26002 	10186 	1745 	279 	2320 	9253327 	8652 	54117 	315770 	806076
Oct 2005 	21677 	6855 	1407 	206 	1642 	4897810 	6414 	43628 	212508 	671991

A little off on the way things are lined up there, but that shows 3500 more file hits per day, over 4000 more page hits per day, 70 more visits per day, For the month, 11000 more page hits, 100000 more file hits, and 135000 more hits overall....something like that.

Looking at the months in details, the first few days of te draft ar eboth the biggest days of the month. But this time around things just kept nearly as strong for about a week and a half as far as activity.

[Cringer]

one of my favorite things to look at, hits by country...

# 	Hits 	Files 	KBytes 	Country
1 	482346 	59.84% 	150148 	47.55% 	3173786 	34.30% 	Network
2 	181568 	22.52% 	106326 	33.67% 	4954409 	53.54% 	US Commercial
3 	109316 	13.56% 	40862 	12.94% 	730722 	7.90% 	Unresolved/Unknown
4 	10310 	1.28% 	4385 	1.39% 	86116 	0.93% 	US Government
5 	9691 	1.20% 	5237 	1.66% 	107671 	1.16% 	US Military
6 	6436 	0.80% 	5020 	1.59% 	130435 	1.41% 	Sweden
7 	4640 	0.58% 	2489 	0.79% 	52735 	0.57% 	US Educational
8 	284 	0.04% 	270 	0.09% 	1963 	0.02% 	Canada
9 	198 	0.02% 	182 	0.06% 	1406 	0.02% 	Australia
10 	174 	0.02% 	162 	0.05% 	2536 	0.03% 	Germany
11 	169 	0.02% 	80 	0.03% 	694 	0.01% 	Netherlands
12 	147 	0.02% 	118 	0.04% 	1788 	0.02% 	Russian Federation
13 	141 	0.02% 	105 	0.03% 	1234 	0.01% 	Brazil
14 	103 	0.01% 	98 	0.03% 	555 	0.01% 	Non-Profit Organization
15 	83 	0.01% 	71 	0.02% 	1453 	0.02% 	United Kingdom
16 	79 	0.01% 	75 	0.02% 	1903 	0.02% 	Saudi Arabia
17 	65 	0.01% 	58 	0.02% 	352 	0.00% 	Italy
18 	46 	0.01% 	33 	0.01% 	618 	0.01% 	Japan
19 	46 	0.01% 	44 	0.01% 	567 	0.01% 	United States
20 	41 	0.01% 	32 	0.01% 	407 	0.00% 	France
21 	25 	0.00% 	24 	0.01% 	119 	0.00% 	Romania
22 	24 	0.00% 	20 	0.01% 	261 	0.00% 	Ukraine
23 	23 	0.00% 	8 	0.00% 	153 	0.00% 	Sri Lanka
24 	8 	0.00% 	5 	0.00% 	83 	0.00% 	Argentina
25 	8 	0.00% 	4 	0.00% 	150 	0.00% 	Seychelles
26 	7 	0.00% 	2 	0.00% 	25 	0.00% 	Colombia
27 	7 	0.00% 	5 	0.00% 	79 	0.00% 	Israel
28 	7 	0.00% 	7 	0.00% 	21 	0.00% 	Morocco
29 	7 	0.00% 	3 	0.00% 	94 	0.00% 	Poland
30 	6 	0.00% 	3 	0.00% 	44 	0.00% 	Estonia

Canada being low is odd. We have two Canadians, and though Cydney maynot be on a lot Matt is, so I wonder if Matt comes across as Newtork, or Unknown most of the time.

[hawkster]

Most of those US Military are me at work

[Cringer]

Most of those US Military are me at work

You, and roadrash should be some too. Not sure what he registers as right now in the Middle East though....Saudi Arabia is where he is at I think.

[Cringer]

ahhhhh, yeah ok my assumption was a little wrong about the googlebots. They did have something to do with this.

Comparing March with October of '05, our activity increased by over 1 gig of bandwidth. Googlebots(and the like) increased by 2 gigs. I have started banning the IPs for them by the way, I started adding a couple a week or two ago. Just added a couple more.

Still, March was a record month for us even taking away the googlebots.

[Coder]

ahhhhh, yeah ok my assumption was a little wrong about the googlebots. They did have something to do with this.

Comparing March with October of '05, our activity increased by over 1 gig of bandwidth. Googlebots(and the like) increased by 2 gigs. I have started banning the IPs for them by the way, I started adding a couple a week or two ago. Just added a couple more.

Still, March was a record month for us even taking away the googlebots.

That's frustrating, bots taking 20% of your bandwidth... (you had 10 gigs, right?)

I don't quite understand how google-bots could use that much bandwidth though, or perhaps you're not referring to Google's spiders?

[Cringer]

That's frustrating, bots taking 20% of your bandwidth... (you had 10 gigs, right?)

I don't quite understand how google-bots could use that much bandwidth though, or perhaps you're not referring to Google's spiders?

googlebots, google spiders....same thing to me.

Anyways, I think I have found a way to tell them to go away. Putting a robot.txt file into te root directory. They read it and it tells them not to go into certian areas. I just need to find out if I put it in the root root, or the public html root area.

[Coder]

No, I understand what you meant, I was just shocked at how much bandwidth they're using.

[Cringer]

No, I understand what you meant, I was just shocked at how much bandwidth they're using.

Yeah me too. I didn't think it was that much looking at the first set of website stats. But another stat thing I can look at has an actual break down between normal users and bots/spiders. Atleast we beat he bots/spiders.

[Kobeck]

WItH is checking out the IFL from Estonia????

[Cringer]

WItH is checking out the IFL from Estonia????

Just part of the Empire my friend. 8)

I don't know though, some linked from a search engine maybe. Or they got lost on the internets!

[roadrash]

Most of those US Military are me at work

You, and roadrash should be some too. Not sure what he registers as right now in the Middle East though....Saudi Arabia is where he is at I think.

I'm a .mil at the moment. . and I hit refresh about 20 times a day