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Originally Posted by Wideawake
Thanks for the reply bo. im new to the whole dedicated server thing. Haven't purchased one but im looking into it. But I did get a email from our current host with is quoted below. Any thoughts? dsod? _mike
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Hello,
We had to firewall the following IPs for making excessive connections to
your site forum.ppcgeeks.com, this caused your site to slow down and the
apache to become overloaded.
The IPs were (# on the left is the connections being made)
1014 75.24.90.214
1040 66.249.70.101
1052 24.118.28.90
1330 198.253.30.237
1398 24.124.21.196
1525 71.36.49.58
1663 144.226.230.36
2971 144.226.173.68
6076 82.114.185.195
We have blocked the IPs from connecting the your server so that it will
not bring your site down again. If this is not an IP that you want
blocked please let us know what it is being used for and we will see what
we can work out.
Also the 66.249.70.101 IP if from Google, if you want to continue to get
searched by google you will need to remove this IP from the htaccess
file; But before you do that please read up on how to limit how much
google crawls your site to keep the load down.
http://www.google.com/support/webmas....py?topic=8843
Thanks!
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They are blocking googlebot! I'd say your time with this hosting provider is long overdue. Until you move to a dedicated service, configure
vB not to show posts older than 6 months max (it will minimize indexing) and tell your provider to unblock bot IPs before your domain gets black listed. A robots.txt file won't do squat to prevent rogue bots from crawling you, do it through
vB.
Meanwhile the best you can do is not panic. Forum members always come back to sites they enjoy, especially if they're more enjoyable on a fast server
