At 11:49 7-9-01 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
> > >Congratulations, http://www.geocities.com/jeroenvb.geo is
> > >very popular and has been receiving a large amount of traffic. Your
> > >site has become so popular, in fact, that our records indicate that
> > >you're using more than the allotted amount of data transfer we provide
> > >for a free web site, which is 3GB/month (measured on an hourly basis).
> >
> > I was not aware that my website was *that* popular! Oddly enough, the hits
> > counter I set up is not aware of it either...
> >
>
>Jeroen, this is definately misleading, but I think I can see how this is a
>true statement. 3 GB/month is ~4 Mbytes/hour. It is possible that you
>had a high traffic hour, say right after you said something was on your
>website? Could people have had 4 Mbytes worth of hits in that hour?
There was a peak on August 12, 2001; the main page of my site had 17 hits
that day (highest ever). I first thought it could be related to posting the
Landmine Myth report on my site, but that was on August 16 or 17 (and then
I posted the direct link to that document, not the link to my main page).
But even if all those 17 people had copied the entire site, and all of them
did that within the same hour, that would still have generated less than
200 MB of data transfer. Again, it is highly unlikely that such an event
would happen.
An other page has a somewhat higher peak, BTW: the Rankings page (aka
Alpha-Mail Statistics) has had 568 hits since June 9, 1999 with a peak of
24 hits on July 27, 2001. (The page itself is 49 KB in size.) That peak is
probably explained by the discussion of "Posting Stats" we had around that
time.
Jeroen
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