While I'm certain that the suggestions here are certainly well-meant, I think they are unlikely to have any impact. Many of the Anonymous requests are already served from static pages. Serving an "access denied" page instead of the static page will have very little impact.

I think the next step will be to separate the machine where logged-in users access the site from the machine where the crawlers roam. But that requires some setup and thinking, and I won't do that until I have reserved enough time to implement this and also deal with the fallout.

One downside of having the site accessible at all is that people have again a venue to complain about the site responsiveness.

In reply to Re^3: Perlmonks Response Time Bottoming Out by Corion
in thread Perlmonks Response Time Bottoming Out by roho

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