{"id":1701,"date":"2009-08-31T09:58:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T19:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2009-08-31T09:58:38","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T19:58:38","slug":"bad-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/bad-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad robot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So my site has been down for about 24 hours. Did you miss me? (Sometimes I’d love to see the expressions on my reader’s faces, I bet there is more than one person out there rolling their eyes right now)<\/em><\/p>\n

The problem is that I had exceeded my bandwidth. Not that it was a big surprise, I had been monitoring the traffic to my site almost on a daily basis, hoping it wouldn’t go over. In fact, I had just increased the bandwidth a couple weeks back. It’s up to 17GB of bandwidth a month right now.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I have no allusions of grandeur…I know for a fact all 17GB of traffic coming to my site aren’t individual people looking for my divine insight. I’m grateful if even just a handful of people out there find it worthwhile to even read this regularly.<\/p>\n

In actuality, there’s a reasonable percentage of real traffic. I get maybe anywhere from 150 – 200 unique visitors a day to this site. (hello!)<\/em> Not bad considering I really haven’t made any effort to market this.<\/p>\n

What really is giving me a pain in the rear end is the bandwidth being eaten up by bad bots and search engines. You know I don’t mind of search engines like Bing, Google, and Yahoo come and archive the content on my site, but they say there’s a lot of random bots out there doing not much else but farming content from websites for no good reason at all. Summammabeetch.\u00a0 If I’m reading my report right I have like 9GB of traffic just on random bots alone.<\/p>\n

I gotta find a way to ban these bastards. So far the information found online to combat these bots aren’t very specific. I’ll report back if I find a way. I seem to notice any of my clients with photography websites seem to be encountering problems like this lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So my site has been down for about 24 hours. Did you miss me? (Sometimes I’d love to see the expressions on my reader’s faces, I bet there is more than one person out there rolling their eyes right now) The problem is that I had exceeded my bandwidth. Not that it was a big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}