Runaway Google Attack

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The site went down this morning for a bit and when I brought it back up it seemed to be under a denial of service attack. So, I took it down and put up an error message while I investigated. Turns out it must have been a Google crawler that got a wild hare and kept hitting the same page, several thousand times. Everything seems fine now but sometimes it takes Google a few hours to find out that their latest version of the crawler is coocoo for cocoa puffs and fix it.

I'll keep an eye on it today and don't be surprised if it goes down again, a time or two.

Hugs,
Erin

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