I just went and had a look at my bandwidth usage across all of the sites that I host, and I noticed something weird…

Normally I transfer about 600-800MBs a month of stuff, images and music mainly. That goes up and down with the number of MP3s I upload, but it’s fairly static.

Then last month what should I find but one of the subdomains that hasn’t been updated or probably viewed for more than 3 years (last update was 26th Feb 2006…) had somehow magically uploaded 21.56GBs last month..

To say I was shocked is an understatement. It’s a static page. A static 8kb page. To upload 21.56GBs… It had to be viewed some 2.7 million times.

That’s fairly extreme… And more to the point, it was only 3 IPs..

I would say it would be a DDOS, but it wouldn’t make sense, and I wouldn’t be so arrogant. First of all, it’s only 3 IPs that are all just 1 digit different to each other, says they’re owned by a company. Probably a spam company of some sort, the page did have a “comment” type thing that put the entry straight into a mysql database. So if I check that…

Cheers

Saska

**EDIT** Wooo, 56000 spam posts in the database! Serves me right, I guess!