Okay. WTF. Today is a piece of crap. First of all, my site was down again. Somewhere, somehow I have traffic spikes that knock me offline. Now I love me some traffic. I am a traffic whore! But seriously. I didn’t think it was that high. So I must still have a robot or bandwidth sucking situation. It’s the only thing I can figure! So I blocked more bots, and put the Google Bot on a really tight leash. No more Image Bot. Speaking of images, I used to only block known ‘hotlink’ places like MySpace and Blogspot. Now I have blocked any and all hotlinking. No more Mister Nice Guy. Hopefully this will work, because waking up to no blog kinda sucks. So does spending your whole morning looking for unwanted traffic reducing solutions and code.
Where was I before I started the tech ramble? Oh, my crappy day so far! Yeah, so I have been for the most part tied to the computer trying to keep my site online. All the while the washing machine has been beeping. It started last night. It just won’t shut off and keeps beeping. I think it is making me slowly insane. I am starting to hear patterns in the beeps. Maybe we are haunted. The weird part is how it’ll stop for a while, then start again. Beep, beep beep, beeep…
In the meantime the sun has come out. Am I out driving in the convertable? No. I am here. But not for long… I am so out the door after a quick shower!
tagged: blog traffic site washer bad day beep bots
