I’d also like to inform everyone that the AllBusinessCards.com-sponsored 1,500 business cards giveaway is now also open to residents of the Philippines and the deadline has been extended to May 30th.

Blogging

• 5 Bad Blogger Habits You Need to Break
• What You Can Learn From the Blogger Outage – Even if You Don’t Use Blogger!
• 21 Ways to Create Compelling Content When You Don’t Have a Clue
• 5 Ways Blogging Can Make You a Better Person

WordPress

• How to Add a Default Image for WordPress Post Thumbnails
• WordPress 3.2: A First Look
• How to Install and Setup WP Mobile Detector in WordPress Blog
• 6 Best WordPress iPad Plugins

SEO

• Ignore SEO, GoogleBot Will Sort it All Out for You
• Why you should treat PPC like SEO
• Content SEO made easier by WordPress, Yoast and Linkdex
• SEO In 30 Minutes Or Less: Leverage Facebook To Juice Up Your SEO Results

Social Media

• How to Build a Free Social Media Monitoring Dashboard
• The Illusion Of Social Networks
• Social Media is a Contact Sport!
• Social Media Measurement: What You Are Doing Wrong

Technology

• Poisoned Google Image Searches Becoming a Problem
• The Dirtiest Jobs in IT
• New Chrome Exploit Bypasses Sandbox, ASLR and DEP
• Do Geeks Make Better Adults?

Gadgets

• Eton Soulra XL Solar-Powered iPod Boombox
• PQI Traveling Disk intelligent Drive U819V – World’s Smallest USB 3.0 Flash Drive
• Xplore Technologies’ iX104C5 tablet PC
• HP Elite L2201x Super Slim 22-inch Monitor

Pinoy Blogs

• LG Optimus 2X vs. Samsung Galaxy S2
• How to Install and Play the Angry Birds Game on Google Chrome
• Google: Filipinos Search for “Gadgets” Most
• How To Resell Items Online As A Business

JaypeeOnline Weekly Recap

• Google Expands Android Paid Apps Support to Filipinos
• WordPress 3.2 Beta 1 Now Available
• Sitting Down Can Kill You [Infographic]
• Criticker – Movie Recommendations & Community
• Now Using Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
• Google Analytics Site Speed Tracking Feature
• Free WordPress Icons from Envato
• Life Without Twitter [Infographic]

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Here’s the alleged email sent by Dreamhost:

This email is to inform you that a few of your sites were getting hammered by Google bot. This was causing a heavy load on the webserver, and in turn affecting other customers on your shared server. In order to maintain stability on the webserver, I was forced to block Google bot via the .htaccess file.

[Limit GET HEAD POST
order allow,deny
deny from 66.249
allow from all]

You also want to consider making your files be unsearchable by robots and crawlers, as that usually contributes to high number of hits. If they hit a dynamic file, like php, it can cause high memory usage and consequently high load…

I moved to Dreamhost just over a month now and so far I haven’t encountered any hosting problems related to Googlebot nor have I received any emails like the one above. It could probably be because my blog doesn’t have much site traffic. Googlebot is known to take up an enormous amount of bandwidth causing websites to exceed their bandwidth limit and be taken down temporarily. I guess a part of this story is true, that some of the sites involved did cause a heavy load on the shared server due to site traffic and Googlebot activity.

I’m not sure about this but it seems to be an unlikely move by an established web hosting company such as Dreamhost. I’m thinking that this is just a hoax and I haven’t confirmed if this story is true or not. But if it were true, it would definitely affect the image of Dreamhost and the confidence of current and future customers.

Hopefully someone from Dreamhost gets to read this and can give an explanation or confirm if this story is true or not. I’ll update this post as soon as I confirm the validity of this story.