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I've recently created a new domain and website for personal/hobby use. I've never had a publicly available website before.
I'm using Microsoft Azure as my hosting provider. The domain is a standard .com
domain, e.g. example.com
Currently the website is blank. I haven't done anything with it. Regardless, when I look at the Azure tools, my page seems to have a lot of activity.
The website has been active for about one month. It has similar activity for the past few weeks.
Last 24Hr
Last 1Hr
It looks like there is a pattern there. I'm currently getting over 1,000 requests per day.
What might explain this activity? How would I go about finding out?
Why would there be a massive spike between 11pm and 6am?
1Welcome to the Wild Wild Web. Raw logs will tell you alot, but there are lots of things that index and once you get on their list they just keep coming back. Good example: the google bot, bad example: the yandex bot. – Tyson – 2014-12-12T03:30:47.903
Also don't get excited thinking 1000 requests a day is high... learn to understand a page load could be 100 requests. – Tyson – 2014-12-12T03:33:02.453
see also: http://www.incapsula.com/blog/know-your-top-10-bots.html
– Tyson – 2014-12-12T03:34:44.827