g-stats

[JSeverson]

Hi all,
I'm not sure if I'm posting this under the right category as it partially deals with programming...

Recently, I created a site for a client. I would say, at most, it's been up for about 3 weeks now. Last week, when I checked the stats, the number of hits and visits was extremely high. Now, I expected them to be kind of high since I had submitted the site to Web directories the week previously and I figured the administrators for those directories would be checking out the site.

However, for the 2nd week of it being up, between 06/26/05 - 07/02/05, the site received 303,790 hits and 17,366 visits. I thought at first that it may have just been a fluke but, when I ran the stats today, between 07/03/05 - 07/09/05, the site had 171,020 hits and 15,738 visits.

I noticed one set of domains that were hitting the site: g-stats.net and g-stats.com. The first time, there were 14,450 visits from www . g-stats.net (NOTE: added spacing to prevent it from becoming a link) and 607 visits from the same domain, minus the www at the beginning. This week, there were 13,575 visits from www . gstats.net, 170 from gstats.net and 3 from www . gstats.com.

My first question is this: has anybody heard of this site before? I assume it's for statistics? Why would it continuously be hitting my client's site?

My second question is programming related. My client is on a shared Windows hosting account so there are bandwidth limits. I'm afraid that this set of domain names are going to cause her to go over her quota and then be charged by the hosting company. Is there any way in ASP to block these domains from accessing her site?

I seen a previous posting on how to block an IP via .htaccess on Apache and via IIS on Windows but, since this is shared Windows account, I don't have access to IIS.

Any suggestions?

If you need to see the stats (WebTrends reports in MS Word format), let me know and I'll upload them to my server.

Thanks all,

[Ne0]

Originally Posted by JSeverson

Posted: July 10 2005 Post subject: g-stats

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My first question is this: has anybody heard of this site before? I assume it's for statistics? Why would it continuously be hitting my client's site?

Gstat is your servers stat company... It's like awstats or some of the other stat companies out there... are you running a 'live' tracking system for visitors on your site?

Is there any way in ASP to block these domains from accessing her site?

Switch to a Linux server (asp won't run on linux)

I seen a previous posting on how to block an IP via .htaccess on Apache and via IIS on Windows but, since this is shared Windows account, I don't have access to IIS.


Any suggestions?

Send the server admin a support request with details about the problem your having, if it's shared then the 'reseller' is either pumping up hits or there is something wrong with the windows server, possibly leeching from another account?...either way that's the best place to start ;)
just my $0.02
NeO1

[JSeverson]

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.

Gstat is your servers stat company... It's like awstats or some of the other stat companies out there... are you running a 'live' tracking system for visitors on your site?

I have a number of sites hosted with this company and I have never seen Gstats listed in the WebTrends reports before. There isn't any live tracking system on the site. The only statistical information offered by the Web hosting company are the WebTrends reports and the log files that they are generated from.

Send the server admin a support request with details about the problem your having, if it's shared then the 'reseller' is either pumping up hits or there is something wrong with the windows server, possibly leeching from another account?...either way that's the best place to start

I've already contacted the Web hosting company (they aren't resellers) about this. They directed me to a few ASP sites for blocking domain names from accessing a site but I wasn't able to find any code samples...