I had a suspicion that something was amiss. Getting Google bot, Bing bot, and Facebook bot visits to a website or blog is routine. That is how they index various web pages for search by users. I knew Google and Bing would visit my blog and index it. But when I started getting Facebook visiting my blog from four servers at the same instant, I knew it was abnormal. I thought it was something Facebook was doing as a rival search engine, to surge ahead of Google. I wrote about it on my blog on 18th February 2014.
Now I am not so sure. When I got seven hits from Facebook servers in different locations, all at the same instant, I knew something was amiss. Here is a screenshot of Statcounter showing these hits.
I think this is a 'Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)' attack. It is a method of suddenly causing such a large traffic to a website that it crashes. Someone is using Facebook to do this, though I cannot think of any reason why anyone would to do it to a blog of a Gynecologist and a Professor in a medical college. Those of you who think this is all bullxxxx may read the article at the following address, which I found on Google search.
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I only hope it is not DDoS and it is just Facebook in overdrive to function better as a search engine. How it can achieve that by sending seven hits from different servers at the same time is beyond my comprehension. I request anyone of my readers who has the technical knowledge to kindly write to me.
Now I am not so sure. When I got seven hits from Facebook servers in different locations, all at the same instant, I knew something was amiss. Here is a screenshot of Statcounter showing these hits.
I think this is a 'Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)' attack. It is a method of suddenly causing such a large traffic to a website that it crashes. Someone is using Facebook to do this, though I cannot think of any reason why anyone would to do it to a blog of a Gynecologist and a Professor in a medical college. Those of you who think this is all bullxxxx may read the article at the following address, which I found on Google search.
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I only hope it is not DDoS and it is just Facebook in overdrive to function better as a search engine. How it can achieve that by sending seven hits from different servers at the same time is beyond my comprehension. I request anyone of my readers who has the technical knowledge to kindly write to me.
