bringing sketchy back...

I got sort of distracted from the whole meta search engine thing and more or less neglected this site for the past couple of years... I'm in the process of figuring out what to do with it and I'm open to suggestions.

sketchy.community

We survived the holidays although we continue to have server issues occasionally... In any case, we've finally launched the sketchy.community which is currently powered by PHPizabi. Please give it a whirl and be one of the first to set up an account. As always, feel free to get back to us with any feedback.

Googlebot Gone Wild

I've narrowed down my server problems to a ridiculous amount of traffic coming from the Googlebot... I want Google to visit and index lots of pages of sketchy.com, but I had to request that they chill the Googlebot out. I've also revised the sketchy.com robots.txt file to try and slow msnbot, Slurp, Googlebot and Speedy down, as well as stop them from crawling dynamic pages. I've blocked a bunch of shady bots in my .htaccess as well.

migration complete

I finally got access to the new dedicated server yesterday, so I've more or less migrated the site over the past 24 hours... As of this morning, everything should be up and running again. I'm hoping that I won't have the same connection issues I was having with the old server, so I'll be keeping a close eye on things prior to moving ahead with any new functionality, etc. Please contact me if you come across any errors or if you have any feedback.

power outage

Believe it or not there was a power outage at my data center, so the server was down again from some time early this morning until around Noon... I can't believe my luck this week, good thing this is only a preview of the site.