it sounds like they are not forcing it on their users, but still.... that is like asking a fortune 100 company to do no advertising whatsoever :)
Real good.. |
Wow! How could anyone possibly believe that this could possibly be true...
The true story:
Dreamhost simply want the tiny, tiny, tiny minority of their shared hosting sites which cause the Googlebot to take-up >50% of the shared server's resources to either remove the content causing this, or add a .htaccess file to prevent the Googlebot from crawling it (or open a dedicated account). Completely reasonable. What else should they do?! Allow the situation to continue and have everyone else's sites on the server grind to a halt?!
Is it so much to ask for people to check facts before simply repeating a silly rumour? Did you really think any host would prevent all of their client's sites receiving traffic from Google?!
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Simply. This RECOMMENDATIONS from Dreamhost is for user-centric high load servers |
Jeff, to me it sounds like Dreamhost is overburdened if it can not even deal with Googlebot. That would be no wonder as Dreamhost offers much more for much less then competitors. I don't understand why you get that pissed. Are you working at Dreamhost? |
Why is the thing from my previous post now above the Bloglink in the sidebar? |
http://www.seopedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/dreamhost-mail.png
this screenshots looks realy, erm, legitimate... |
