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March 22, 2005

"By The Pricking of my Thumbs"

By QBlog in

Earlier this month my site received a special visitor. One single visit. One single IP address. No big deal right? Wrong.

This single visit accounted for over 30% of all files transfers and ranks number one on the list of total KBytes transfer. Over 500 Megs of my bandwidth were consumed by this one, solitary visitor.


IP address



What I believe happened is that someone "archived" or "cached" my entire site. All of it. This is significant because, to my knowledge, it's never been cached before. Of course, my curiosity was piqued and I ran a Whois on the IP address. Turns out it traces back to a Dallas Firm called ThePlanet.com.

The Planet

I don't know exactly what is going on, maybe nothing. But my Spidey Senses are tingling and I suspect something is brewing, somewhere. Or it could just be some Texan who really loves this blog?

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Looks like they 'snaked' your site.

I'm onto that IP now ;)

Posted by: Imran Aziz | March 22, 2005 5:36 AM

ThePlanet is a major web site hosting service. It hosts one of my favorite PC news sites: hardocp.com.

Posted by: Axel | March 22, 2005 4:02 PM

Hey, they are an ISP as well as a hosting company...
http://www.theplanet.com/access/index.html

I would bet it wasn't them that cached your site... it was one of their clients.

Know any Texas Diamonds you've annoyed lately?

Roger

Posted by: Roger, Husband of a Team Brainwashee | March 22, 2005 4:29 PM

I've also had a few visits from 'ThePlanet', though I don't think whoever it was cached my site...

Posted by: the mad sister | March 22, 2005 10:14 PM





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