The reason it's generating 100 alerts per hour is that his server alerts on every request to a "bad" (non-existent?) URL: > My blog logs an alert when someone

The reason it's generating 100 alerts per hour is that his server alerts on every request to a "bad" (non-existent?) URL: > My blog logs an alert when someone accesses a bad URL. The reason for the alert: a series of bad URL requests is often an indicator of an attack, or a precursor to an attack. And he doesn't say it's using 25% of his available resources -- he says 25% of visits to his blog are from Googlebot. Since he doesn't mention what his total visits are, we have no way of knowing how much money is wasted, but I'd be willing to bet the amount is pretty close to $0.00.