So you're site traffic is a little light? Need that boost in traffic so you can brag to your friends that your site gets tons of hits?
Well.. I just discovered a way kind of by accident and it cracked me up.

It all started with me getting ready to put a new site on a server hosted with godaddy. I've never used their services before, so after the server was set up I pointed an uptime monitor at the domain to see what my $6.29/month bought. I found an uptime monitor in GIGRIB and it looked interesting, so I set it up and it started checking the server every 10mins. I got busy for a few days and forgot about that and installed Mambo on the site and then got busy again and left the site sit for a couple of days with a default mambo install.

When I checked back on the site I noticed on the home page that Mambo was indicating 20+ guests were on the site. Wtf? So I went into the admin panel and toggled the site "off". After some checking in the database (real sessions were there, real user stats, etc) and in the stats tool on godaddy (geez.. cpanel on training wheels there) I find that the site has gotten over 20,000 visitors in just a couple of days. The visitors were all hitting the root of the domain via port 80 (i.e. requesting the home page) and so Mambo was faithfully seeing them as a guest hitting the site. Ack... yikes..

The GIGRIB client is an interesting idea. Using P2P to check server status from multiple locations and report it to a server where you can go and look at stats for free is a handy thing. Having it make tons of requests to the home page on my server isn't too cool though, and installing a P2P client that I can't compile (what's in that thing anyway?) doesn't give me the warm fuzzy feeling. So, is anyone out there interested in an open sourced Flex/Apollo based app that would do something like this? I could see an application that uses a slightly different architecture (saving the data to MY server rather than someone elses, has a nice UI, and allows the user to set where the ping/requests are made (maybe to a specific file that's only a few bytes).