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Your call, I guess.<br /> <div class="quotetext" id="quote"><b>quote: </b><a href="messages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.8">Matt</a></div><div class="quote">And robots.txt doesn't allow us to control things like frequency of visits and number of visits per day.</div>No, but it does allow you to prevent directories from being crawled, so the main domain could be indexed, but not the forum. Unless the point is to have a search for 'teh forum' or 'beehive' return every last jibbering post from us lot, in which case my bad. <span class="emoticon e_zippedmouth" title=":><"><span class="e__">:><</span></span></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=35800.9&return_msg=35800.8" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="35800.9"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a35800_10"></a><div class="message" id="message_35800_10"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time"> 5 Mar 2009 09:33</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Matt <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 5 Mar 2009 10:46"></span></span> <span class="message_count">10 of 67</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.10">35800.10</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.8#a35800_8" target="_self">35800.8</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I agree with Truff. Being indexed by google doesn't seem worth not having access to this place for one in three days or whatever. <br /> <br /> (I'm talking specifically about teh not beehive in general, I realise it's something you'll probably want to iron out in the code if the problem is there)<br /> <br /> I've never used google to search this place (have other people done that much?) and we've not (as far as I know) attracted any new users through google so...</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=35800.10&return_msg=35800.8" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="35800.10"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a35800_11"></a><div class="message" id="message_35800_11"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: JonCooper<span class="message_time"> 5 Mar 2009 09:40</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">11 of 67</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.11">35800.11</a></div> <div class="message_body"> 'teh' is acutally the live test forum for beehive, always has been, and that's why we sometimes have glitchy bits, but (I'd suggest) it's better to sort out whatever google is doing so that beehive works better rather than just turn it off and ignore it?<br /> <br /> note: the above is written from the perspective of someone who wouldn't have a clue where to begin</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=35800.11&return_msg=35800.8" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="35800.11"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a35800_12"></a><div class="message" id="message_35800_12"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time"> 5 Mar 2009 09:42</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: JonCooper <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 5 Mar 2009 09:53"></span></span> <span class="message_count">12 of 67</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.12">35800.12</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.8#a35800_11" target="_self">35800.11</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I accept that first bit for sure. We accept a bit of glitchiness so matt can do his thing. But it's gone a bit beyond that lately.<br /> <br /> But... what benefit to we at teh actually get from being indexed by google? If lots of people use it often to search the forum then fair enough, but otherwise it seems to have no upside (other than in the abstract).</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=35800.12&return_msg=35800.8" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="35800.12"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a35800_13"></a><div class="message" id="message_35800_13"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: JonCooper<span class="message_time"> 5 Mar 2009 09:57</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 5 Mar 2009 09:58"></span></span> <span class="message_count">13 of 67</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.13">35800.13</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.8#a35800_12" target="_self">35800.12</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I don't think we at 'teh' get any benefit at all, this isn't the sort of forum that needs to be searchable, but others will need it and this is the only sensible place to test stuff and see what breaks</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=35800.13&return_msg=35800.8" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="35800.13"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a35800_14"></a><div class="message" id="message_35800_14"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time"> 5 Mar 2009 09:58</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: JonCooper <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 5 Mar 2009 10:02"></span></span> <span class="message_count">14 of 67</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.14">35800.14</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.8#a35800_13" target="_self">35800.13</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Aye, that's fair enough if that is the case.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=35800.14&return_msg=35800.8" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="35800.14"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a35800_15"></a><div class="message" id="message_35800_15"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: milko<span class="message_time"> 5 Mar 2009 10:53</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 5 Mar 2009 10:55"></span></span> <span class="message_count">15 of 67</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.15">35800.15</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.8#a35800_10" target="_self">35800.10</a></div> <div class="message_body"> there seems to be a couple of new users per week signing up on average.. dunno where they come from but it might be google!</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=35800.15&return_msg=35800.8" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="35800.15"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a35800_16"></a><div class="message" id="message_35800_16"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time"> 5 Mar 2009 10:55</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: milko <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 5 Mar 2009 12:32"></span></span> <span class="message_count">16 of 67</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.16">35800.16</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.8#a35800_15" target="_self">35800.15</a></div> <div class="message_body"> But they don't seem to post <span class="emoticon e_sad" title=":("><span class="e__">:(</span></span></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=35800.16&return_msg=35800.8" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="35800.16"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a35800_17"></a><div class="message" id="message_35800_17"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Matt<span class="message_time"> 5 Mar 2009 11:16</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">17 of 67</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.17">35800.17</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=35800.8#a35800_9" target="_self">35800.9</a></div> <div class="message_body"> The downtime yesterday evening was because someone switched off Apache and MySQL. I have no way of knowing who it was, but there are only 3 of us that can do it, those being Pete and myself and EuroVPS. I know it wasn't me and I suspect it wasn't Pete either.<br /> <br /> (Google = all search engines)<br /> <br /> Google's indexing is not taking down the forum and neither is the point of the indexing to allow people to use Google to search here, it's simply so we appear in Google's search results.<br /> <br /> If anyone has been paying attention to the number of visitors lately you all should have noticed that it has risen quite dramatically above the usual 10 registered users and 1 or 2 guests. We're now getting 20+ Guests browsing at times. This wouldn't be too bad normally, but because Apache is restricted to 10 concurrent connections when these 30 people turn up at once, 20 of them have to wait in line. The only way this can be made better is to add more RAM and allow Apache to accept more connections.<br /> <br /> In retrospect when we changed servers last year we probably should have gone for the better server with more RAM and paid more for it, rather than side-grade like we did.<br /> <br /> I'll be the first to admit Beehive probably isn't the best optimised forum software out there, but baring in mind it's feature set, it's certainly a lot better than it ever used to be. The memory footprint could probably be looked at, but I'm not sure if that is something that can be solved easily in code or if it's something that needs changing in the PHP configuration.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=35800.17&return_msg=35800.8" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="35800.17"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="message_page_footer"> <ul> <li class="right_col"><form accept-charset="utf-8" method="get" action="lmessages.php" target="_self"><input type="hidden" name="webtag" id="webtag" class="bhinputtext" value="DEFAULT" dir="ltr" /><input type="hidden" name="msg" id="msg" class="bhinputtext" value="35800.18" dir="ltr" /><input type="submit" name="submit" id="keep_reading" value="Keep reading…" class="button" /></form></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body>