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I have an Ubuntu server running a website. Once or twice a week apache will spawn so many instances my server will die. Looking through the access log all the traffic is from bots, google, baidu, yandex, msn, etc. I need these bots to crawl my site so I can't just deny them. Furthermore, the bots are GETing URLs that don't exist anymore. I.E. they are trying URLs from before I rolled out the new version of the site. Does anyone have any suggestions to mitigate this situation?
I was able to have my server handle high loads better by setting MaxClients in apache. I was also able to deny bots requesting bad URLs in robots.txt and was able to set Crawl-Delay to 20 seconds in robots.txt.
I have an Ubuntu server running a website. Once or twice a week apache will spawn so many instances my server will die. Looking through the access log all the traffic is from bots, google, baidu, yandex, msn, etc. I need these bots to crawl my site so I can't just deny them. Furthermore, the bots are GETing URLs that don't exist anymore. I.E. they are trying URLs from before I rolled out the new version of the site. Does anyone have any suggestions to mitigate this situation?
Mitigate what exactly? Your "need" to have bots crawl your site?
"google, baidu, yandex, msn" your site and see what the results are and compare to referer reference in the logs.
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