From: Alexandru Popescu <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@...>
Date: 2005-09-17T03:24:14+09:00
Subject: Re: A big project

#: Eric Hodel changed the world a bit at a time by saying on  9/16/2005 8:13 PM :#
> On 15 Sep 2005, at 12:04, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> 
>> http://www.43things.com/
>> http://www.43places.com/
>>
>> The sites all fall within the category of your references and they're
>> made with Ruby on Rails. Many of them do more than 400K pageviews per
>> day. I know at least one of them is nearing one million.
> 
> Our sites (combined) handled over 1 million requests due to a naughty  
> spider for a couple days.
> 

Have you solved it? I would be very interested to find out how. Can you post some hints how can you 
protect against these spiders?

thanks and sorry for this question that might be considered a little offtopic.

:alex |.::the_mindstorm::.|