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My 1997 hit counter just rolled past 50,000 on a site I haven't touched since 2004
I checked my old fan page for a band that broke up in 2003 and there's still like 12 strangers a day clicking through, which blew my mind since the guestbook has been broken for years, anyone else got a relic like that still ticking?
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lee.cole12d agoMost Upvoted
Well, I've got to respectfully disagree with the wonder of it all. I had a fansite for a local band nobody's heard of and when I checked it a few years back, I found out the comments were all spam bots trying to sell fake watches and pills. The traffic was just bots crawling the page, not real people. So that 12 strangers a day on your fan page could easily be the same thing just pinging the server. Maybe check your server logs to see if those hits have a real browser attached or if they're just automated scripts bouncing around old pages.
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barnes.jamie11d ago
Is this really something to get worked up about though? I mean, who cares if it's bots or real people? It's a fan page for a band that broke up over twenty years ago. If the guestbook is broken and the site hasn't been touched since 2004, you're basically just looking at a digital fossil. Even if it is bots, the fact that some script is still hitting that old server is kind of neat in a weird way. It's not like you're running a business off it or losing money. Just let it sit there and be a time capsule.
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