United3dArtists Archive

Greetings,

Several times today I received a blank white page with the following message on it:

The server is too busy at this moment.
Please reload this page few seconds later.

The trouble began at 2:56 p.m. (EDT). Note: The English grammar of the last sentence of the message is incorrect. A better rendition is: "Please wait a few seconds and try reloading this page again."

In between occurances of this problem, I checked how many people were online and was surprised to see that there were only 3 of us using the website. But one of the three revealed the problem. It was: Google [Bot].

Evidently when the Google bot starts crawling through tSCommunity to gather information for the Google search engine, it hits the tSCommunity server pretty hard.

I think there is a way to prevent search engine bots from taking such a heavy toll on a server. It may require special instructions for the bots in the header of the homepage.

Best regards, First Light

A quick description of the robots meta tags can be found here:

http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html