Problem's "fixed" for now

Everything's up and running as normal... had to drastically decrease the number of links that a search engine saw (removed 90% of the a href links, but kept the text), added a "crawl-delay" of 120 -- but everything's working now, and should be OK for a long while (or until we expand servers)

Site Down -- Manual Decision

Currently we have been receving up to 50,000 hits PER DAY by search engines! Unfortunetely, this has maxed out our servers, and taxed our bandwith making the site virtually unavailable to any people.

Search engines have also retrieved over 1.5TB of data over the past 24 hours, most of the data being identical.

As an example, about 95% of the visits to our site have been search engines over the past 72 hours, and 99% of the bandwidth used has been allocated to them. In addition, over 2 million querirs have been executed just for the search engines.

No Known Problems

The entire site, and all functions are working as expected.