Search Engine Marketing (SEM) & Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

On June 10,  one of my servers was down for more than 24 hours. That’s really a horrible nightmare to me considering the fact that I have more than 40 websites hosted on that server.  Why I didn’t take action to rectify the problem earlier?

My hosting company has informed me earlier that they will be performing server maintenance on my server on June 10, 2008, between 11:00 p.m. MDT and 2:00 a.m. During this server maintenance, my server will be unavailable for approximately 45 minutes as they will be applying minor security updates and patches to Apache, OpenSSL and OpenSSH. That is the reason why I didn’t bother to take any action earlier.

I should have read the “45 minutes” part in their email!

Finally, I couldn’t take it any longer. I emailed them and I was told that they have not done any maintenance to my server yet.  Arrgh!!!  So I thought my server was DoS attacked. Actually, it wasn’t DoS attack even though I was denied the service for more than 24 hours. My server was being crawled by Twiceler spider.

Twiceler crawls from the following IP addresses:

38.99.13.121    38.99.44.101    64.1.215.166    208.36.144.6
38.99.13.122    38.99.44.102    64.1.215.162    208.36.144.7
38.99.13.123    38.99.44.103    64.1.215.163    208.36.144.8
38.99.13.124    38.99.44.104    64.1.215.164    208.36.144.9
38.99.13.125    38.99.44.105    64.1.215.165    208.36.144.10
38.99.13.126    38.99.44.106

 I love search engine spiders to crawl my servers and would love to support new start ups like Cuill but I have no choice but to filter the following IPs 38.99.13.* and  64.1.215.*  One day of income forever lost due to my inaction.

 What is Twiceler?  Twiceler is a new search engine robot developed by Cuill.com.

Hope those guys at Cuill will compensate me when they are as big as Yahoo! or Google.  

 http://www.cuill.com/twiceler/robot.html