That's a recipe for disaster. :*(
Yeah, that's creepy....
Who hit "Hide forum from guests" ? Cause new comers are going to think it's gone, or non-exsisting.... Losing new members..... etc.....
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It's a temporary thing while we figure out why these bots are draining so much bandwidth from the site. The site used 18 gigs of bandwidth in a day the other day and I'm trying to save it so that it doesn't go down again until we make sure they all get blocked.
Ya know, you can set it to automatically log in when you go here. Then you never have to know - unless you use a different computer.
Quote:Ya know, you can set it to automatically log in when you go here. Then you never have to know - unless you use a different computer.
err.... I'm not the only one who uses this computer.
Yeah that's creepy.
Maybe it's some sort of search engine. (maybe even google)
hifty:
Quote:Yeah that's creepy.
Maybe it's some sort of search engine. (maybe even google)
hifty:
It is. At least one of the bots that's using it the most is google.
I'm sure you have, but just in case you could check the robots.txt is correct?
Code:
User-Agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
Its been a long time since i wrote a robots.txt but should it be -
Code:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /index.php
Disallow: /forum/
Disallow: forum/
etc...
Multiple forms of disallow (forum/, /forum/, /forum, forum ) to make sure robots really ignore it.