Search Engine Indexing Limits: Where Do the Bots Stop? takesan experimental approach to seeing how big a page various search enginebots will fetch, and how much of large pages they index.I find this an interesting question because it affects how you organizeyour content and generate indexes to it, especially for dynamic websiteswith auto-generated aggregate pages.

One area not investigated in the article is how far down the pages thesearch engine bots will go looking for links to follow. I smell afollowup project for someone

SCGI and FastCGI are both CGI 'replacements', in that they areprotocols for forwarding HTTP requests to persistent daemons instead ofstarting a possibly big, heavyweight program for each request. Ideallyyour web server will have a built in gateway for them; less ideally youcan run a tiny, fast to start CGI program to talk the protocol toyour persistent daemon.There's discussions around the Internet about which one is better; youcan find people on both sides, and to some extent it depends on whatyour

This week, we:

• got 11,443 messages from 213 different IP addresses.
• handled 15,802 sessions from 820 different IP addresses.
• received 219,841 connections from at least 43,156 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 50 connections being checked at once, reachingit Monday.

Connection volume is up significantly from the extrapolated levelsof last week . All of this is despite usbeing down for about half of