Am i being spammed ?

This week has been really bad , my servage hosting was disabled twice, because of ....... hold your breath too much traffic , many hits !! (they have some 400000 per day limit ..anyway)

.. i checked my google analyctics stats, i checked my advertisers stats , but it didnt show anything unusual.

I then checked servage's own stats & i was shocked

i who usually have 3000 pageviews , suddenly had 491373 pageviews :|
i check the stats more (reffering pages) to find some forums had hotlinked the pics
hxxp://board7.cgiworld.paran.com////view.cgi?id=ww9cn4&now=1&jd=-1&ino=60&tmp_no=60
hxxp://74.52.13.50/index3.htm
etc

what are these forums ? spam forums ?

and they were all chewing up my bandwidth ...and i checked a few of the pages..to find out only 3 images they used ...i deleted the three images & thumbnails they used ..however the hits are still piling in & im sure the account will be disabled again ,

im totally out of clue what this is !!

 

procrastinator,

From what I can see it's most likely you being hotlinked.
Try disabling their access via .htaccess using some method of hotlink disabling, e.g. allow only certain sites.

Here's an example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?mysite\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ - [F]

Replace mysite\.com/ with your domain name. Remember to leave it in the exact syntax it's in. That will output a 403 error to the bastards in the meantime