Spiders Cause Load to run over 200!!!

oadvantage · 09-02-2006, 12:17 PM

Hi,

I have a couple of dedicated servers and the load is well over 200 at times, which makes my websites non functional.

This problem is due to too many spiders visiting sites.

i only have about 133 sites on one and 233 on the other. Is there an easy way to take care of this.

We blocked Google temporarily but the sites are still getting attacked. What can I do to block all of them completely, maybe except yahoo or just allow yahoo and Google. Or shoot all of them until I get this resolved.

thank you for your help.

W

btmiller · 09-02-2006, 01:55 PM

I'd suggest just using robots.txt to make the spiders go away (and using mod_rewrite or similar to block those spiders which do not respect robots.txt, but all the "big ones" should).

How many spiders are visiting at a time? If your server hardware can't handle several concurrent visits, maybe it's time to think about upgrading?

oadvantage · 09-03-2006, 12:44 AM

Googlebot is killing the server right now. I didnt have any robots.txt. I guess the situation is getting a balance on allowing spiders for indexing and not crashing server.

I am pinging about 50 different servers with wordpress, only about 133 websites on dedicated server. never had this problem before

Matir · 09-06-2006, 11:42 PM

Google's bots have been designed not to create huge amounts of load on servers (they have delays inserted). What is your load without the googlebot hitting you?

oadvantage · 09-08-2006, 08:08 AM

i think your right, for some reason is very very high

i only have 233 websites with small php script, i have some of these on one other server and load is around 0.01 almost all the time.

i have set a robots.txt but I dont think it is the spiders after looking.

i know it is not memory related, yahoo related, i am perplexed.

thank yyou for your help!