From the monthly archives:

August 2005

Going down …

August 29, 2005

My server went down to its knees late last week. Googlebot went into high gear and went rampage on 2 of my AWS (Amazon.com Web Services). The Googlebot started indexing and at the end of each day one (1) GB of bandwidth per site was used. The same thing the next day. 1 GB bandwidth [...]

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Search Engines – Can’t live with them, can’t live without ‘em

August 24, 2005

My server did experience some rough time the last few days. I had already mentioned that Google was spidering my Amazon affiliate stores heavily. Well, it turned out that indeed Google was working hard to get my sites indexed. However – working even harder was MSN. The combination of these two made the server load [...]

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Time to take a quick breather

August 22, 2005

Time to take a quick breather. Took the weekend to do some general administration and maintenance work. Spent Friday night alone just to work on my server. Did some major cleanup and also fine-tuned the system a little bit. Saturday and Sunday I used the time to monitor log files, review website statistics, removed some [...]

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