Site got shutdown from a bot.

[schoppy]

Howdy yall

As some of yall have noticed, the entire site got shutdown from a couple bots that kept scanning the entire database.
That put us over our allotted bandwidth for the month.

It should be fixed now so that it wont happen again.

Sorry for yall getting the error message.

Schoppy

[Patrick]

I guessed something like that might be happening. Thanks for all your efforts to keep this site running.

[hugh]

Thanks Schoppy for getting it back up and running.

[Padded53]

Great to hear, I was afraid I was going to be stuck with ADISC from now on!

[batman381327]

glad it was able to get restored, was beginning to wonder what happen.

[WetDad]

Tweak the robots.txt file?

[schoppy]

I just hope that we got the bot taken care of.
Time will tell if it happens again near the end of the month. hehe

Hopefully we got the robots.txt file set up right and that nasty bot will be blocked.

Schoppy

[john1050]

Good work, Schoppy!

[Sarah1]

This things do happen with forums from time to time and from al cinds of difrent iccues, Ether way great work indeed getting this back again Schoppy

Last edited by Sarah1 on Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:42 am, edited 3 times in total.

[RobertH]

Thank you for fixing the Bot issue hopefully the bot never returns