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Is there something going wrong with my "guest counter" because I never have more than 15-20 guests online and right now it keeps growing and growing and won't stop. Theres over 100 guests online. Its almost like whenever a guests gets on, the counter goes up, but then when they leave it doesn't go back down. Its not a big deal, but its kind of weird!
ok maybe it IS a big deal, could someone be trying to hack me or something? it keeps going higher and higher each time I refresh the page. There can't really be a new visitor every 3 seconds. What the heck!?!
Sounds like someone is ddosing your site, either that or you just got a lot of traffic all of a sudden from somewhere.
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Is there something going wrong with my "guest counter" because I never have more than 15-20 guests online and right now it keeps growing and growing and won't stop. Theres over 100 guests online. Its almost like whenever a guests gets on, the counter goes up, but then when they leave it doesn't go back down. Its not a big deal, but its kind of weird!
One thing I have noticed is with certain ISP's who use the proxy/caching servers, whereby the users visible IP changes each time they view a different page, so you may have upto five apparent connections for one user, until they timeout. Just a thought.
Sounds like someone is ddosing your site, either that or you just got a lot of traffic all of a sudden from somewhere.
ddosing? what is that?
Distributed denial of service. Most likely you're just seeing the result of some quirk, however, not being subjected to a DDoS attack. That type of attack would generally cripple your bandwidth/server in no short order.
Mostly likely you are experiencing robots visiting your site. Read this:
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