http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1560 Comments for "Bots Ate My Bandwidth" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1560 <p><img src="http://www.parrett.net/~rralston/robot.jpg" alt="" height="258" width="177" class="right" /> Back on the trail of why my modest website keeps exhausting the bandwidth quotas, I may have found something <em>fundamentally</em> flawed with many dynamic <acronym title="Content Management Systems">CMS</acronym> --- this appears to apply to Drupal, but may apply to other data-driven multiple-views content presentation systems such as <span class="caps">PHPN</span>uke, Slash, Geeklog and many the other multi-column website publishing engines: </p> <blockquote><p>Search engine crawler bots are triggering a bandwidth drain.</p> </p></blockquote> <p>It's a bit more complex than this, and not the fault of the bots, but the periodic return of these bots in a dynamically generated website that is apparently sapping a huge share of my bandwidth ...</p> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/1560#comments the skin of culture Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:14:39 -0500 mrG 1560 at http://blog.teledyn.com