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BrockleyJohn wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2026 6:28 pm It only caches the urls that it writes, so no it won't help.

First step - make sure that Prevent Spider Sessions is set to True

Update the includes/spiders.txt if not recently done. You can get one here:
https://github.com/BrockleyJohn/spiders

Make sure there's a robots.txt set up and that it has a crawl delay for all of them

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 30

BrockleyJohn wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2026 8:07 pm It should be in robots.txt not .htaccess
You might want to add some disallows while you're at it

Code: Select all

User-agent: *
Disallow: /account*
Disallow: /address*
Disallow: /advanced_search*
Disallow: /checkout*
Disallow: /cookie_usage.php
Disallow: /account*
Disallow: /create_account*
Disallow: /login.php
Disallow: /logoff.php
Disallow: /password_forgotten.php
Crawl-delay: 30

(edit) forgot to mention - adjust paths above if shop not in domain root

ecartz wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2026 2:48 pm MySQL (and probably MariaDB) can cache database queries if you turn it on.

Cloudflare can cache page hits if you turn that on. It has a free tier.

In addition to robots.txt, etc.

burt wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2026 9:07 am Check your clients hosting situation. Shared hosting + 503 errors -> almost always a plan limit.

If it's a `bucket` host (GoDaddy, HostGator, etc.) with zillions of sites on every server, your 503 could be someone elses fault entirely.

Get the error logs. If see "worker connections exceeded" or "max_connections," caching might help a bit but won't save you. That's a hosting upgrade conversation.

ALTER TABLE `sessions`
  ADD PRIMARY KEY (`sesskey`),
  ADD KEY `idx_expiry` (`expiry`);

ALTER TABLE `whos_online`
  ADD KEY `session_id` (`session_id`),
  ADD KEY `idx_time_last_click` (`time_last_click`);