October Notes
Oct 7, 2006 — It’s been about one month since we kicked off the new sites. MeasureNEWS.com is not quite ready yet, but test files are there for our guys to use as programming samples. All in all, things are running pretty smoothly except for some strange hits that get reported as “Hacker Attempts’.
There appears to be some sort of interaction between the scripts on several of the sites and some repetitive programs (up to a few thousand attempts in less than an hour). We think there may be spiders attempting to download pages with Urchin JS code on them. We are investigating several different solutions at once; a surprise advantage to having multiple sites.
If your spider is getting hung up on one or more of our sites, or you find that your spider can no longer access our sites, send an email or post a note here. All posts are now allowed to submit, except for obnious content, and all are reviewed for appropriateness (like all our sites) prior to publishing.