[Koha] Web hosting

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Weinheimer Jim wrote:
> While I agree with this, people need to be aware of some of the problems of placing a server on the Internet, where it is vulnerable to all kinds of hack attacks from porno websites to "roaming" bittorrents. At the minimum, I would suggest working with the robots.txt file to disallow Google, Yahoo, etc. from hitting your computer, since they can hit very hard, and in fact, I learned the hard way by having my little server crash repeatedly until I finally shut them out. Making very regular backups is absolutely necessary!

Googlebot is an interesting case.  On the one hand, sure, it can sometimes put more of a load on a library catalog than is desirable.  On the other hand, there are a number of Koha databases that are indexed in Google; while I'm not sure that there's any immediate benefit to that at the moment, the possibilities are interesting.

Regards,

Galen
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