hi, i setup a new proxy site yesterday: mroxy.info i've installed statcounter code init, which is giving me yesterday's visit's as 30 but today for some reason the site went down with an error message 'bandwidth exceeded' . 1 gb BW was been alloted the site. I just logged into my host cpanel and checked the awstats and it says the yesterdays stats close to 1500, yet no clue from where or who. adsense says 0 visits or clicks i today upgraded the BW by 2more gb for the time being can anyone help an tell what might be goin on?
The traffic in Your Cpanel also include the robots/crawler visits and these visits could not be accessed using statcounter or GA, Statcounter only shows you real traffic coming from real visitors...
yes but do you think bots are the reason to eat up the 1GB BW in 1 day??? i will pm u the hosting login details, can u please check it for me? Thanks, Raja
There are many spammy robots that just dig your website to gather email ids or for some other spamming..so it'll be better if you restrict those robots using your robots.txt...However some time these bad robots ignore the robots.txt, then you can block or restrict them using htaccess by denying their IP address. you can find some bad robots list here...
Glad you got it sorted out coooldude. You might also want to try GoStats in the future to compare your results and trends.