Most members online !!!!!!

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

I just noticed this at the bottom of the main page, what in the world happened yesterday??

Most users ever online was 161 on Yesterday, 02:11 AM

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[Tirefryr 1,742]

No idea, but I know I wasn't on. Crap.

[Chevy350TPI 12]

Do guests count as people online?

We don't have 161 active members

- Steve

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

I think it might have been guests, weird we dont have the google adds set up yet

[Nikuk 1]

Do guests count as people online?

We don't have 161 active members

- Steve

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I was pondering the same thing....

Anyhow... NICE!

[02BlackOnBlackSS 1]

At 2 am too. That is kind of weird.

[XTRMEASURES 0]

No idea, but I know I wasn't on.  Crap.

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x2

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

same thing happened on CA.com

[XTRMEASURES 0]

same thing happened on CA.com

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damn thats crazy

[hilton 0]

bots scanning for email addresses on the forums. Spam may appear in your inbox sometime soon then.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

I noticed we are up to 188

[Tirefryr 1,742]

And growing!

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

well our membership is steady increasing a few a day

[SoundSplinter 1]

Check your referrer logs; usually you'll see that the addresses come from a single domain or two, and 9 times out of 10 it's a search engine spider indexing your webpages for their content. It's great for upping your rank in the engines, but sometimes the load can seriously bog down slower servers

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

yeah the googlebot i on here all the time, we are trying to set up the google adds which will help direct more links and connections to here

[SoundSplinter 1]

Also, if you have a lot of directories on your server here that are just filled with images or stuff that you don't think should necessarily be indexed on search engines, either because it has sensitive or unrelated content, you can specify which folders should be avoided with a "robots.txt" text file in your root directory. The file needs to follow the following format, where User-Agent: * specifies which search engines should follow the rules (ie. if you only want specific spiders to use your rules, then remove the * and replace with each respective engine's name). After the User-Agent line, you write "Disallow:" and simply list all folders you don't want the spiders to index. For example, my soundsplinter robots.txt is as follows:

User-Agent: *

Disallow:

/expired/

/test/

/_private/

/externalcode/

/imagelib/

/manager/

/old/

/vdsbackup/

/plugins/

/SharedSSL/

/fm/

/main/

/_vti_bin/

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

holy crap 239 this morning!!!!

[Nikuk 1]

its the place to be baby!

[JimJ 11]

now there's like two...

*sigh*

[Nikuk 1]

theres always good times & bad times...