Blocked OperaMini
June 25th, 2007 by GregThis is a sad day as I have had to block OperaMini from accessing my site.
Opera Mini is a service that lets normal cell phones use the Internet. See http://www.operamini.com/help/faq/#mini . In short, the Opera Mini servers fetch Internet content — including feeds — and displays it suitably for cell phones, all on behalf of the Opera Mini users.
I discovered a couple of weeks ago a large number of hits from the Opera Mini IP range and emailed them with reguards to the amount of hits to my site they where making, I am talking nearly 1000 hits an hour.
Opera’s response was :
The Opera Mini servers maintain xml feeds for its users and refresh these several times per day, depending on feed popularity. It is not normal that the downloads scale up to the thousands, however. We are currently investigating this issue to see if there is a problem with the service that makes it misbehave like you describe.
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