MOST of the sites traffic from search engines comes from Google too. But the Googlebots have only used about 65mb of bandwidth per month to "do their thing". Granted ... if my problems had been with Google & not Inktomi Slurp ... I would likely have had to think on my decision to ban them a lot harder.

By comparision ... Inktomi Slurp sends very little traffic our way. Uses that huge amount of bandwidth ... and Ask Jeeves (whose bots use less than 1mb a month) send us more traffic than Yahoo does ... or Inktomi Slurp ... combined. Crazy.

My friends web space is "donated" to him ... because it a support site for people disabled with the same illness as I have. It only has 1.5 gig of bandwidth allotted per month. On the last day of November, the site went offline because the bandwidth allottment was exceeded. And my friend really didn't want to approach his web host about increasing bandwidth for the site ... just in case he decided it was using too much. With Inktomi Slurp robots/spiders being banned now ... the bandwidth usage for the entire site should only be 500 to 600 mb per month.

I have offered to host the site on my own web space ... my resellers account still has a fair bit of space available to host it. But ... he is comfortable with where it is & doesn't want to change unless he absolutely has to. If it had been on my space ... I would not have thought twice of just increasing his bandwidth & forgetting about it.