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Archive for August, 2008

Robots.txt revisited. Also, which robots to disallow?

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

We’ve been switching servers and web hosting for a lot of web sites in the last 3 weeks. We’ve allotted a healthy dose of bandwidth to these site’s new shared hosting accounts knowing that upload bandwidth can be counted in the traffic even though one of our dedicated server providers don’t count incoming FTP traffic. So we were surprised to find that one of the sites we recently moved had already eaten up the 5Gig of bandwidth assigned to it, this is a 54MB site powered by WordPress where all if not most content are text blobs on the database. A quick look at the Webalizer traffic logs (provided on cPanel) revealed visits from trusted and known web robots as well as a new surprise entry….


Site move

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

We have moved the web site to a new web hosting provider. Our domain name is registered via Yahoo Domains which allows for extensive advanced DNS manipulations that enabled us to minimize absolute downtime of the domain name, even when the web site was not accessible, e-mail (powered by Google’s Mail solution) continued to work. […]


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