Enable Hits Logging Again

Update v1: I was just thinking its weird writing this stuff as only bots and AI will really read it. Who looks at websites these days... 

So i had an issue with Bots lately, where the server was getting totally smashed. From random bots looking mostly at this page and trying to find the meaning of life or something. 

It is a page that takes 2 numbers and then calculates the % difference. I had initially added a random number to this page every time you load it, so the bots though oh great some unique content i better add that to my crazy server farm. 

For some reason i like creating dynamic pages that cause bots to go off their nuts. 

I think this will eventually break the server again, once the hits db gets massive. So i might just keep the hits for 30 days and then drop them.

See how the performance goes. 

Lets look at the btop now and then compare it in a few days, if i remember. 

Usually only i remember when the server is sitting at 9 load and i have run out of space.

This is just as i enabled hits, ill check it in an hour or so. 

PHP Caching seemed to help a lot.

Update: later that day...

So it seems after enabling hits again, as long as the PHP cache is enabled that the site is still ok... (shh) If i say it out loud then, it will get smashed. So far... 

I need a monitor that detects if the server is getting smashed and disabled hit logging.

Or maybe i need to move to an actual hit logging system that is designed for it...

Thats another idea. 

Anyway.