The workaholic is at it again and she’s killing herself with work. I have a deadline on a big project on Monday, then another deadline for that on March 5th. I have my 19 inches tall cross stitch pattern, a pending layout for the Hakkai and Hakkuryu fanlisting, my Japanese lessons, and my normal workload. Yes, I’m definitely on the road to exhaustion once again.

I thought I’d finally have some rest on the 2th since it is President’s Day in the US but it seems our company had other ideas. We’re having communication training on that day so we had to go to work. My reaction? O_O Not that I have superb communication skills, but I can converse in English quite well. I’d rather sleep.

Gah, I need sleep.

We’ve recently moved our office to a new building and I have to agree that the new location is definitely better. It’s bigger, has a conference room, its own male and female restrooms and its across several food establishments, including Starbucks! ^^

The crowning point that cinched it was something that made me wince in chagrin. The new office is right across the building where I used to take my Japanese classes! And I mean, literally, across the street, a mere 3 meters from the entrance of our building.

Is this the universe’s way of telling me that I should continue with my nihonggo classes? ^_^

I know I should be grateful that they’re indexing my sites frequently. That would mean that we’re getting more exposure and more people visit the site.

But should their indexing take up so much bandwidth?! I mean for one subdomain alone, we got 14gb of used bandwidth within 7 days. Isn’t that insane? Shouldn’t our bandwidth be reserved for people who actually have an interest on our site, rather than robotic machines that only report back to google about our pages?

Bandwidth doesn’t come for free; in fact, it’s rather expensive if any exceeded bandwidth is not part of your hosting plan. How expensive? Just imagine that a few months ago, this blog racked up 100gb of bandwith, and yes, just for this little blog alone.

Now our hosting package only allows for 20gb per month and that’s more than enough for us. Unfortunately, we didn’t expect the googlebot to ransack it.

How about using the robots.txt file? People say it works.

It doesn’t. I tried it for several months and it did stabilize my bandwidth towards the middle but in the end my bandwidth is still sky-rocketing.

Now if only I knew how to stop googlebot from sucking up our bandwidth and yet not lose our page ranking in google. T_T