[Koha] Web hosting

[Chris Cormack]

On 26 January 2011 09:37, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
You can do things like this for example

http://www.google.co.nz/#hl=en&xhr=t&q=harry+potter+azkaban+levin+library&fp=f7a3b585cf0f93bb

http://www.google.co.nz/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=harry%20potter%20hauraki%20%20library&fp=f7a3b585cf0f93bb

Chris