Well I must have pissed someone off out there…
Not sure who I have annoyed, but it seems that from what I can gather my poor humble blog is being spambombed by miscreants unknown whose IP addresses are registered to China.
It started last month with some weird traffic, then there were the numerous spam comment messages to my blog. I installed a “call and response” code to my comment section but this seemed to accelerate the problem. Today, I got a message from my host telling me that the code on my website – the bit that handles the comments – was accessed so many times that it caused their server to crash, disrupting all the customer accounts being co-hosted on that server.
Looking at the logs, whoever these people are shifting gigabytes of data from my site and generally fucking things up for me. So far, the comments.cgi page has been accessed 130739 times these last eleven days and my archive pages have been accessed over 4000 times each. This is a massive spike in traffic.
Who knows? Maybe I am a big hit in China and my fans are clamouring for my songs? I doubt it. This is an all out attack and it looks like I might have to take this site down.
I am not being melodramatic. I am worried that my host will pull the plug on me if my site is that disruptive to their business. I am also worried that this excessive use of bandwidth might be charged for despite me being on an unlimited hosting account.
So if my website suddenly disappears, you know why. I’ve been hounded out of existence and there’s bugger all I can do about it.
I must admit I am feeling a bit sad because I’ve had a website on this domain for over a decade now (in various forms) and now it looks like it is coming to an end and there’s nothing I can do about it.
The End…?