Load Issues Conquered?

Here's the deal. Basically when I first created the php comic script Walrus, I coded in some bits that check for a "current version" image file on my server. Cut to 7 years later, some larger webcomics still use that old code, and at times my server gets nailed by hundreds of those requests all at the same time -- My suspicion is there's a web aggregator trolling those pages, but since there's nothing I can do to stop the requests from happening in the first place, I finally came up with a genius plan to divert them so the Newbsoft Server never even has to refuse the connection (which is what was happening for the past few years).

The gist of it is, now any time a request is made to either walrusphp.com or lifeofwily.com (the script's original home), it is first diverted to a google-hosted blog, at the domain level. Then real folks have the opportunity to click and continue on to their destination, and web aggregators get to leave me the fuck alone.

We're still running a little above the usual load, but I think that has to do with the Mafia.

I can't promise this has solved all our problems, but I've been monitoring the load very closely over the past couple days, and it seems like maybe we've got things handled.

At least for now!