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Stu

13 Dec 05, 08:02 AM

Hi Guys,
It looks like we are getting too good at optimising our sites for the search engines.

at 1am this morning we were hit by an army of search engines trying to index our site. 677 of them all online at the same time :(

This had the effect of closing the server for normal access, so if you couldn't get on first thing this morning that was why.

Sue

13 Dec 05, 08:08 AM

Thank goodness for that Stu:grin:
I logged on first thing - there was no homepage, no updates apparent since midnight, tried a search, told I must wait 15 seconds between searches and to wait another274578964738 seconds before searching again and when I tried a post - it elevated it up over the Thread starter!!!:confused2

JaneSi

13 Dec 05, 08:09 AM

I'm glad you sorted it out Stu, ever the clever one!! Though I was going mad this morning.

Jane

Sue

13 Dec 05, 08:15 AM

Still telling me that I was last here at 1am on the 1st Jan 1970?

Mike

13 Dec 05, 12:17 PM

...Forum front page still saying Most users ever online was 677, 1 Jan 70 at 01:00 AM.

:D

AlexD

13 Dec 05, 09:12 PM

I was only two then.

Ste

13 Dec 05, 09:13 PM

one of petalsoftlys postes said she posted it at 1 jan 70!!

Stu

13 Dec 05, 09:42 PM

I have reset users online,
took me a while to trace it in the database

spickard

15 Dec 05, 10:47 PM

Anne

15 Dec 05, 11:17 PM

Hi Stu

New to Dibb and having great fun reading all the post but I cant work out how to post a new question (thread) to the Dibb community.

Please help as I need to get going on the plans for my first trip in April 06

Please help
Thanks Sandra

Hi Sharon

Go into the Forum where you want to start the thread and at the top left is a Blue Button that says New Thread. Hit that and away you go. Once you've finished just hit Sumbit.

TinkTatoo

16 Dec 05, 07:51 AM

I have reset users online,
took me a while to trace it in the database

I think it's playing up again - just saw some posts out of sync and dated

Old 1 Jan 70, 01:00 AM :confused2 :confused2

Stu

16 Dec 05, 07:56 AM

yes I'm trying to isolate the offending search engine spider, I have had to put a total block on Yahoo at the moment