What was so special about Sunday 11th June?

Going Underground · Post by **Going Underground** » 11 Jul 2006, 22:03

I notice that on the above date at 0312 am there were 37 users on line

This is surely a "glitch"

Starkey7 · Post by **Starkey7** » 11 Jul 2006, 22:48

Hmm I don't know so much; amazing coincidences do sometimes happen. After all, on Tube Relief day last year, what do you reckon Chesham station's neighbours must have thought when they saw thousands of passengers at 6am?!

petermiller36 · Post by **petermiller36** » 12 Jul 2006, 00:04

thousands? 6am?

Starkey7 · Post by **Starkey7** » 12 Jul 2006, 00:09

Well, I wasn't there; I've no idea what time you lot got to Chesham! I presume that it was sometime around then, though.

And there were quite a lot of you that day...

barrykas · Post by **barrykas** » 12 Jul 2006, 09:40

Starkey7 wrote:Hmm I don't know so much; amazing coincidences do sometimes happen. After all, on Tube Relief day last year, what do you reckon Chesham station's neighbours must have thought when they saw thousands of passengers at 6am?!

Well...More like 60 or so from around 0548 to 0558

Cheers,

Barry

Post by **tubeguru** » 12 Jul 2006, 10:55

I have no idea why so many people logged in that day.

I can't think of anything that was happening near that date which would result in so many logins.

Going Underground · Post by **Going Underground** » 12 Jul 2006, 11:00

tubeguru wrote:I have no idea why so many people logged in that day.

I can't think of anything that was happening near that date which would result in so many logins.

Yeah strange it just caught my eye the other day, the other thing is the time 0312 hrs on a Sunday. I can confirm that I certainly wasn't part of the gang of 37 at that time

hwolge · Post by **hwolge** » 12 Jul 2006, 16:04

OK, here is my theory:

A search-bot found a link into the site. Then it spawned several threads/processes (or whatever) resulting in the 37 "simultaneous" visits.

Don't you log the IP-numbers, Neil?
What do you think?

Post by **tubeguru** » 12 Jul 2006, 19:41

Bots arrive on this site as guests. Guests don't count in that number.

If they did, then I'd have about 59693 every day as Google indexes the site!

tc · Post by tc » 12 Jul 2006, 20:00

Guests do count in that number, Neil.

Post by **tubeguru** » 12 Jul 2006, 20:25

D'oh!

What I meant was the multiple logins from one IP address counts as one guest. I don't think it would count it as several dozen.

tc · Post by tc » 13 Jul 2006, 02:33

You'll find it was probably many Googlebots spawning (different IP addresses), with MSNbot joining in.

Post by **tubeguru** » 13 Jul 2006, 09:11

Yeah - no one's going to be here at 03.12 ...

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