Let me start with a simple question! Why should I pay monthly for a service that is useless? Actually I don’t pay Yahoo to crawl and show my websites into their stupid search engine (this is free) but I must say that I am paying for bandwidth and resources for my dedicated server. Here is the problem! I have two article directories, each one with at least 100000 free articles and it is normal that some web crawlers to crawl my websites, but Yahoo’s crawler is a bit insupportable because of the flood it does. Yahoo Slurp was present on my website every minute, every day, crawling all my articles with an entire class of ips, ips starting with 74.6.*.* and 67.195.*.* .
You have the results bellow, in a printscreen from my awstats. Compare Yahoo to Google, given the fact that Yahoo is not sending any traffic and Google is sending 70% of my traffic.
Yahoo : 81069 Hits | 6.37 GB Bandwidth
Google : 18126 Hits | 239.73 MB Bandwidth
The solution for this problem is simple. Ban Yahoo’s ips on your server using htaccess or by using Ip deny manager from your cpanel/plesk administration center.
I added the following code to my .htaccess file to ban Yahoo’s ips:
order allow,deny
deny from 67.195.
deny from 74.6.
allow from all
You should take this in consideration if you are hosted on a shared plan, because cpu and memory resources are limited and after all Yahoo isn’t so important.
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Yesterday I had a little problem with one of my blogs, which was running on the famous platform wordpress but on a outdated version, wp v2.3.2 . Actually the blog was hacked with an exploit, because I am too lazy to update and backup my blogs, plus the entire mysql database is messed up and I can’t recover it.
Why am I so lazy to update my blogs? Well as you all know updating takes a few minutes and if you have five or more blogs, the all process could take you at least one hour (not that it’s hard to update and backup wordpress, but sometimes, time is more important).
The solution! After a few minutes of research and a nervous breakdown, I found some interesting wordpress plugins which make the all process easy and less time consuming. I really recommend that you backup and update wordpress anytime you have the opportunity so that you don’t end up like me, with a blog hacked and a broken mysql db.
Plugins that should save your time and a**:
1. Wordpress Automatic Upgrade – this plugin is fantastic! Why? Because it reduces the time you spend updating to at least one minute/blog. It will allow you to update to the newest version of wordpress, backup your database, de-activates all your plugins, maintenance mode and much more. You can see more info about this wp plugin here and a little demonstration bellow.
2. WP-DB-Backup - is another unique plugin that allows you to backup your wordpress mysql database in a nice way, ajax style. It shows you a progress bar, it allows you to backup the database on your FTP, gives you a download link or sends a direct email with a zip file attached.You can see a little demo bellow in the second part of the movie.
