OK, Which one of you knuckleheads broke the server

[ziggy]

just kidding

FYI

something, somewhere is causing the server load to rise occasionally
It has caused us to need to reboot twice in the last 10 days to clear it up. I have Hostgator investigating the problem so hopefully we can get that cleared up for good.

[BRNC]

I was curious about it Ziggy...odd behavior...hope they can figure it out...and I did not do it....

[Ghost Kat]

Since I have a 5th grade education in computers....What would cause that to happen?

My first guess would be the midgets....Damn those website mini terrorists

[ziggy]

midgets with boxcutters and krazy-glue...

:-) I'm thinking the culprit may possibly be bots hitting the chat room. I'm going to make a quick change so that only registered members can view it, that should stop some of the bot traffic.

[BRNC]

OK...OK...OK...I admit it...I sent my bots-hit squad out...seriously...why would bots be hitting our chat room ziggy?

[Ghost Kat]

why would bots be hitting our chat room

I think it's the Bulls fans hating

[ziggy]

Google, MSN and Yahoo have bots ( or crawlers ) that always crawl through links throughout the web so that they can index pages and add them to their search results. When I installed the chatbox I noticed some weird jumps in the amount of bots. So by only allowing registered users, it'll eliminate the bots hitting it.

If it happens again, then I can at least rule out the chatbox as the problem.