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I use Statpress and i use to get between 150 to 250 feed hits a day, but in the last week i have been averaging over 20,000 Thousand Feeds a day, Why is this?
And is this normal?

Take a look at your webserver's logs to see where the access is coming from. Maybe you got mentioned on TV or something.

Not as if you guys are going anywhere next season. We all know the Panthers are a much better team. :)

Or you have a bunch of splogs pulling your feeds.

Below is some of the rss hits, who is tailsweep?
And why are they hitting up my feed for rss so damn much in the last 4 days!

April 13, 2009 09:55:03 79.136.112.194 1673 TailsweepBlogCrawler/Tailsweep-2.4-SNAPSHOT (http://www.tailsweep.com/; bot at [tailsweep] dot com)
April 13, 2009 09:53:51 79.136.112.195 2707 TailsweepBlogCrawler/Tailsweep-2.4-SNAPSHOT (http://www.tailsweep.com/; bot at [tailsweep] dot com)
April 13, 2009 09:58:24 79.136.112.196 2078 TailsweepBlogCrawler/Tailsweep-2.4-SNAPSHOT (http://www.tailsweep.com/; bot at [tailsweep] dot com)
April 13, 2009 09:58:22 79.136.112.197 3476 TailsweepBlogCrawler/Tailsweep-2.4-SNAPSHOT (http://www.tailsweep.com/; bot at [tailsweep] dot com)
April 13, 2009 09:58:45 79.136.112.198 2840 TailsweepBlogCrawler/Tailsweep-2.4-SNAPSHOT (http://www.tailsweep.com/; bot at [tailsweep] dot com)
April 13, 2009 09:58:48 79.136.112.199 3051 TailsweepBlogCrawler/Tailsweep-2.4-SNAPSHOT (http://www.tailsweep.com/; bot at [tailsweep] dot com)
April 13, 2009 09:58:13 79.136.112.200 2357 TailsweepBlogCrawler/Tailsweep-2.4-SNAPSHOT (http://www.tailsweep.com/; bot at [tailsweep] dot com)
April 13, 2009 09:57:59 79.136.112.201 3141 TailsweepBlogCrawler/Tailsweep-2.4-SNAPSHOT (http://www.tailsweep.com/; bot at [tailsweep] dot com)
April 12, 2009 23:59:57 213.136.35.38 3041 TailsweepBlogCrawler/Tailsweep-2.4-SNAPSHOT (http://www.tailsweep.com/; bot at [tailsweep] dot com)
April 12, 2009 23:59:58 213.136.35.39 2996 TailsweepBlogCrawler/Tailsweep-2.4-SNAPSHOT (http://www.tailsweep.com/; bot at [tailsweep] dot com)

Did you try visiting their site to see?

I'd block 'em.

they have no site at all that i can find?

tailsweep.com resolves to a site saying they are an ad network for bloggers, focused on Britain and Sweden.

Send them an email and ask why their bot is being so aggressive on your site. It might have developed a mind of it's own and just can't get enough of your content :)

They should be able to throttle it down a bit. If you don't get a reply then it's probably best to block it in your htaccess file until you do.

Hi guys. Is this still a problem ?

By looking at your log I feel that it is different pages that are requested am I wrong ? Probably someone links to your various posts and the bot follows those links to see if the endpoint as well is a blog. In this case it liked what it sees.

The bot can sometimes be aggressive when it discovers a blog which it finds interesting.

Cheers

//Marcus Herou, CTO @ Tailsweep