bad bad news

[Jon Broderick]

Somebody has been spidering guitar tricks so they can have a copy of all the tricks on their hard drive. Today this spider program caused a long outage. Guitar Tricks was down for several hours (it is still down as I write this) and our ISP threatened to boot us off.

Whoever is doing this, please STOP. If this doesn't stop, we may have to do a lot of unpleasant things, like charge a membership fee or close down the site. This is very serious.

If you want a copy of the tricks, email me and I will help you.

Jon

[josh_underwood]

Who The **** Is Doing this!!!!!!!!! STOP GOD DAMMIT. Like He Said E Mail Him And he Will Help You. Please STOP. http://www.guitarforums.com/gtubb/frown.gif

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[OldSkoolPunk02]

No site can't close... Must stay...

[ekstasis16]

A spider is a program designed to collect a group of information quickly at one time. This guy didn't want to go through each page and download them individually, so he made a program that grabs all the mp3's in a certain subdirectory at once. It overloads the server because it can't handle the activity. The ISP is pissed because their server is getting messed up.

[This message has been edited by ekstasis16 (edited 08-29-2000).]

[Luke]

Can you say , Panterawannabe ! LOL, just kidding.

Although, I wonder who really is doing this?

[Jon Broderick]

ekstatis16 has it right. I doubt it is somebody who posts to the forum.

It could be a bootlegger or just somebody who wants his own copy.

[jake sommers]

yo jonathan, are they trying to like make a comprehensive disk and bootleg it or something outta everybody's contributions.

[jake sommers]

why would your isp threaten to cancel the site? and what is spidering?

[This message has been edited by jake sommers (edited 08-29-2000).]

[Willdridge]

bas-*d...it'll suck if you've gotta charge a fee...A lot of us (well, me) aren't old enough to have a decent amount of money for that kinda stuff, or the typical means of payin' for it (cards, bank accounts...)
Grrrr!!!!....Stop!

[OldSkoolPunk02]

Is that why this site went from 1600 tricks to 1000?

[jake sommers]

no, there all still there(i think). maybe Jon thought i didn't look good to have 1547. it's better to have a rounded number i guess.

[SJ]

ah, wondered why the site was broke..

didn't think anyone would rip a webby like this..

[loner92]

Isn't there any way you can prevent the spidering?

[Jon Broderick]

I had to make changes to make this site more efficient. Those changes included removing the main trick counter. I had too many little counters and things running in a real ineffecient manner. In the next few months, I plan to rewrite Guitar Tricks and add a lot better categorization features and some other stuff that I think you will really like. When I do, I will try to add these features back in a more efficient manner.

I looked at our server logs, and it seems that the spider guy was just someone trying to download a copy for himself. I don't think he really meant any harm.

[Fender1165]

Is this still going on or has the spidering stopped?

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[Jon Broderick]

so far so good.

[Fender1165]

ok good http://www.guitarforums.com/gtubb/smile.gif