20070611 hammered

Lost internet connection here today, not great. When inet was restored I noticed that google bot was really hammering my connection, after QoS dropped considerably I decided to bite the bullet and take a look at Apache throttling. My experience of the throttling appears quite good. With a simple directive the upstream is limited to 150kbyte/sec.

<IfModule mod_cband.c>
        CBandSpeed 120 10 10
</IfModule>

I’ve no idea why Googlebot has gone loopy and decided to pull off the site like this, but had this been hosted remotely I would probably have lost the months bandwidth quota already.