This week's logs should be a little different - there was a huge traffic spike from Thursday evening forward: this post got posted to the top of reddit.com, and then it appeared on slashdot yesterday afternoon. The server survived all that with only a brief hiccup - which is pretty good considering that I'm running on an underpowered PIII with only 256MB of RAM! Anyway, the numbers for BottomFeeder downloads:

That's a slight uptick, to a rate of 182 per day. Not bad, and there was a spike on Thursday and Friday - the downloads ran at a rate of 230 per day for those two days. Now the HTML page accesses, which should show an interesting spike for those days as well:

The total number of unique IP addresses more than doubled, with nearly all of that coming on Thursday and Friday - and look at the percentages - Mozilla up nearly 10 percent over the normal distribution, and up enough to drive the bots that hit my site down into statistical irrelevance. I guess you can tell what the Slashdot reading crowd browses with :) Finally, the RSS accesses:

The number of tools that made my cutoff of 1% dropped slightly, which is consistent with the HTML results. The overall number of unique IP addresses hitting the feeds rose by over 1000 last week - I hope some of them stick around. Anyway, that's the roundup on the activity - the server stayed up, and took the traffic.