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Things that make me sad – Dreamhost edition
Piepalace.ca has been spanked by more than its fair share of hits recently. Usually, I would just assume that I’m really popular and leave it at that, but Dreamhost has been getting increasingly upset at the load these hits are putting on their server.
Some simple analysis (with the help of the Dreamhost support wiki) has shown a couple of weird trends:
- 207.58.129.221 really likes me.1 It downloads my RSS feed 800-1100 times a day.2
- The Aspie Quotient test is pretty popular. It gets literally thousands of visits a day. It’s basically a static page that relies on javascript for processing, but I’m afraid that WordPress is still falling down under the load.
I’ve blacklisted our friend at 207.58.129.221, and I’m using WP Super Cache. Hopefully this will lessen my load to appease Dreamhost.
Can anyone recommend a decent apache logfile analyzer? Preferably something that runs on the commandline and doesn’t leave HTML turds all over the place.
Footnotes
- Discovered by running
zcat logDate| awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c |sort -non my daily logs. This ranks IP addresses by the number of requests they’ve made. (back) - Discovered by running
zcat logDate| awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c |sort -non my daily logs. This ranks URLs by the number of requests they received. (back)
