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Wow, lots of great information and an awesome post to cover it all!

Man that was genius!

When trying to "sign in" here at IPB the login page is littered with a few errors

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Yahoo/Inktomi search bots are infamous for pounding on sites with 100-500 open connections to them at a time, its just how they crawl. Google and MSN usually only send one spider to your site to crawl it so its probably not those two, but if I had to guess it was any, Yahoo would be it.


Try to add a line to your robots.txt in your sites root folder that looks like

 User-agent: Slurp 

Crawl-delay: 5 

then it will usually take a day or two for that change to take effect but it should fix your problem, assuming its Yahoo

why not upgrade to a VPS?

Expecting to run any forum software on shared hosting once it hits over 20 users online at a time is really pushing it. Especially these days the way hosting companies oversell and the features that most modern forum solutions offer.

Software development shouldn't be retarded due to limitations of a host.

Depends on how far you want the integration to go. If its just a basic, sharing users than yes. If you want one thats more complex that can share posts/replies then I dont think there is

You can try to reupload the files, particularly the one that is named in the error message.

does your FTP program offer a log of incomplete transfers that may occur?

I used aMember with vBulletin and it was awesome then. I haven't used it with IPB but as long as it integrates I wouldn't see why it wouldn't be equally awesome.

But its more settings to screw with. I made the switch from vBulletin in part because of the ease of use of IPB. When you start adding 3 more options for each setting you'll end up with bloated software, unmanageable code, and a lot of other useless trash (See vBulletin for reference)

thats from a leaked screen shot my man!

I'd list it as a good source, but probably not 100% set in stone. (Though, I do expect them to increase the price there :)

I dont think Jelsoft has released anything official in regards to pricing yet.

lol, I'm no math whiz, but I dont think $149 is a 9100% price increase over $49. But any way, its pretty crazy to think that the price of the forum software wouldn't increase over the years, profit/revenue isn't a bad thing, and the price of everything else has increased in those years (Though, i doubt by 9100% :D)

Also, a lot of the complaints/concerns in the thread seem like they aren't really viable to blame on invision? Modifications are provided via 3rd parties, and those are the people you want to talk about with having them upgraded/maintained.

I've got the same problem as well, and posted a bug report about it.

I'd like to propose for future versions the ability to change the URL format to a variety of different structures rather than the current one.

The way it is now, its putting the topics and forums and sub folders which shouldn't be necessary and diminish the value of these sections. The/deeper/in/the/url/structure/something/is the less important it can be viewed in search engines, and perhaps the ability to black list words (and words under 3 characters) from appearing in the url. (http://forums.invisionpower.com/topic/34-this-forum-topic-can-get-really-long vs http://forums.invisionpower.com/34-this-better

If we could remove the 'forum' or 'topic' part that would be a great start, and rather than having the entire forum title as the URL, the ability to enter just the forum id (http://forums.invisionpower.com/forum/this-is-a-forum-title vs http://forums.invisionpower.com/f13/)

Other than that, I think the friendly URL's are a great start to enhancing the SEO