Slow Site

[retired_member6]

Acorn is terribly slow, maybe the ads? it's not just Romania, Oz as well.

Lee

 

[rob]

Acorn is terribly slow, maybe the ads? it's not just Romania, Oz as well.

Yes things are abit slow at the moment. To clarify - that is the site, not just me and lee

 

[rjs_essex]

Yes really slow last night and this morning... I couldn't get past the home page yesterday and today I've just about managed to get here!

You know there must be somthing wrong when there is only 4 users online! I'm sure Admin will shed some light on the matter later today!

Rich

 

[paulc]

Experiencing the same problems as well. In fact it took that long to post this message, I nearly clicked off.

 

[Alien]

Yep, same for me last night and today - also managed to just get here.

Perhaps AD has had a heavy night out on the town and has a bit of a hangover?! Some plink, plink, fiiiiiiiizzzzz is in order perhaps.

 

[meinthecorner]

We had a similar problem on another vbulletin board I mod on. We had 600 members logged in and 800 Guests.

After a quick investigation, most of the guests where Yahoo! Slurp Bots crawling the site. There's an option in Admin Control Panel to show the Bots under the 'Who's online' section.

Edit: Looking at the whos online, the option is on and most guests are Yahoo!

 

[SF]

Yep was slow for me last night.... i was well board so decided to watch a film instead

 

[Admin]

It's working OK for me but wasn't here much last night.

Yahoo constantly bombards the site I have tried to limit it.

I will check with the hosting company as I dodn't change anything, add extra ads or anything for weeks.

 

[Alien]

Seems OK now admin, thanks.

Perhaps the server had a blip or some down time?

 

[Admin]

Maybe yes, I am trying to find out.

 

[paul]

Was the same for me last night too, v slow

 

[Admin]

OK noted, thanks for the info.

 

[FC Domains]

What is it with Yahoo Slurp?
I've got a board where the bloody thing is reading 100MB a day. (Currently there are 73 copies reading.)

 

[Admin]

Yes I have the same thing, of course I want the site top of the search results but I don't want to bandwidth drain it causes.

Anyone know how to limit the number of bots it can send you at once?

 

[fred]

Putting:

Crawl-delay: 10

in your robots.txt file is supposed to slow them down, in the above case to 1 page per 10 seconds.

 

[Admin]

I already have that, sent to 20, maybe that just keeps them here longer?