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« on: June 20, 2008, 01:46:02 PM »
...I'm curious why there are so many guests listed compared to actual users. Are there seriously that many people floating around as guests? Or is Googlebot or the like being cheeky?
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« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2008, 02:13:52 PM »
Quote from: Anarchist on June 20, 2008, 01:46:02 PM
...I'm curious why there are so many guests listed compared to actual users. Are there seriously that many people floating around as guests? Or is Googlebot or the like being cheeky?

Users who aren't logged on will count as 'guests'. if people are browsing while not logged in that could be the source of the 'guest' infestation.
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« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2008, 12:21:56 PM »
One cool thing about this forum is that you can actually see what the guest is looking at at that moment in time but that doesn't really help solve why there are so many guests.

One thing I did notice while I was looking at what guests were viewing was that a lot of them were accessing threads from a long time ago and one of them was checking out quite a few members profile pages for info on about them. So I am guessing a lot of the guests are just getting links from Google search and reading info from some threads here (the one viewing peoples info could be from the CoS  Lips sealed  Cheesy).

I could be so very wrong as that was the one and only time that I was so bored and bothered to check out what guests do here.
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« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2008, 03:51:10 PM »
I'm starting to wonder if it's Googlebot or other spiderbots going through the threads.
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« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2008, 11:03:07 PM »
Looking at the IP addresses of where they are coming from, 74.6.x.x, they are all from Inktomi (Yahoo) who is probably spidering the site. Currently 12 out of the 13 guests are from there. Either that or we have a major fanbase who works at Yahoo....

74.6.x.x @ http://ws.arin.net/whois

Inktomi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi
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« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2008, 01:23:12 AM »
lol, I guess the "become the media" has taken hold at Yahoo then!
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« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2008, 05:04:16 AM »
Inktomi and Yahoo's a spiderin?

I thought some one would send Yahoo a note to please cut down RR forum's bandwidth bill by not running around old posts..

Wonder if Enki or someone else as an endless /dev/null to sink them into..

404 page that links to /dev/null...  Where is my electronic whirlpool when I need it?
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« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2008, 10:00:14 PM »
No kidding, wasting our bandwidth with spidering when nobody even uses those engines to Goog.. I mean search for pages!

Quote from: destined on July 04, 2008, 05:04:16 AM
Inktomi and Yahoo's a spiderin?

I thought some one would send Yahoo a note to please cut down RR forum's bandwidth bill by not running around old posts..

Wonder if Enki or someone else as an endless /dev/null to sink them into..

404 page that links to /dev/null...  Where is my electronic whirlpool when I need it?
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« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2008, 10:45:59 PM »
Theres something that can be stuck in the robots.txt file that can effectively stop most spiders except the ones you want. I used it once on one of my sites to stop the MSN Search Engine spider from searching my site.

I don't recall what it is right off hand. If I get the time I'll look for it and post it.
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« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2008, 10:48:41 PM »
Quote from: destined on July 04, 2008, 05:04:16 AM
Inktomi and Yahoo's a spiderin?

I thought some one would send Yahoo a note to please cut down RR forum's bandwidth bill by not running around old posts..

Wonder if Enki or someone else as an endless /dev/null to sink them into..

404 page that links to /dev/null...  Where is my electronic whirlpool when I need it?
The amount of bandwidth used by the spiders is negligible, and this forum only uses around 1% of the VM's total compute power. I would rather see us get hits of those poor bastards stuck using Yahoo for search. Perhaps we could edumacate them a bit Wink

Unless the crawler is bringing one of my machines to it's knees, I would always rather see our content in their index than try to hide it with a robots file.

Also, if I couldn't build a site that could handle crawlers, I wouldn't be much of an Admin.
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« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2008, 12:36:10 AM »
Enki, Your one of the few that should get a Bravo IT award for how you engineered this place.  Its not your normal, web hosted 99 cent per month web host.
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« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2008, 04:44:30 PM »
Quote from: destined on September 02, 2008, 12:36:10 AM
Enki, Your one of the few that should get a Bravo IT award for how you engineered this place.  Its not your normal, web hosted 99 cent per month web host.
Compared to what I do for a day job, this place is a cakewalk.
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