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How to waste 3GB of traffic on 404 pages

Written by Toomas Römer on November 6, 2008 – 7:25 pm

The previous post on dow.ngra.de generated tons of traffic. That tons of traffic generated 120 000 requests to a style sheet file that did not exist. Wordpress will display a semi fancy page for 404 files that weighs about 25 KB. 25 KB times 120 000 is 3 000 000 KB :).

Actually the same happened to favicon.ico and a few others. So either have your referred files and favicon.ico on your server or rework Wordpress mod_rewrite configuration not to handle css/js/ico/png/gif/jpg files. This will save you money!


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