sross
Sun 20th Aug '06, 1:23am
I now have enough members and a self sustaining forum to no longer worry much about search indexing. I decided today to try making my forum viewable only to registered users and my cpu load was cut in half within 15mins.. I think most guest traffic on my forum is rogue searchbots ignoring robots.txt. I'm wondering if anyone has gotten so fed up with these resource sucking bots that you've also gone this route and locked down your forum. Was it a good move or did you end up backing out of it later on for any reason?
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