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STE'86
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 274 |
temporary Lemon forums up @ http://www.melon64.com
http://www.melon64.com
temp forums to fill the hole until proper forum migration is done.
facebookers will probably already know about this |
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The Gothicman
Account closed
Registered: Aug 2011
Posts: 40 |
Back again! :)
http://www.lemon64.com/ |
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Heavy Stylus
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Registered: Apr 2007
Posts: 61 |
...and down again :) |
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Mr. SID
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 424 |
Did they underestimate the traffic? :-/ |
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TNT
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Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 189 |
Several people crawling all the content doesn't help, especially if they are stupid enough to misconfigure their spiders. From now on every IP caught ignoring robots.txt will be banned for good. |
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meltingpot667
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Registered: Jul 2005
Posts: 8 |
I must be pretty fucking stupid then, because I have no idea what "misconfiguring my spider" means in the first place. It's the first I've heard of using the word "spider" in anything other than biological context. So please do explain? |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5076 |
its programs reading the site for various reasons, causing too much trafic. |
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meltingpot667
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Registered: Jul 2005
Posts: 8 |
Thanks Oswald. Now, is configuring the spider/spiders (??) the user's responsibility or does it have something to do with search engines and that sort? |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5076 |
User responsibility. According to what TNT says, some people are misconfiguring these programs, so they overload the site. I guess robots.txt describes what is acceptable for such use and whats not. |
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meltingpot667
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Registered: Jul 2005
Posts: 8 |
Okay, good to know. Since I didn't know such a thing existed, it probably wasn't me overloading it, but could it be possible that someone could be hacking into my spiders and making me indirectly overload Lemon64? Or in any other user's, for that matter? |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5076 |
no, these "spiders" or "robots" takes some effort & knowledge to set up and use. if you dont know them you dont have one.
ofcourse it's possible that someone secretly takes over your machine and installs one, but its highly unlikely. |
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