perldiver

We are in the process of setting up the LifeThunder.com website.  This includes a lot of very unglamorous jobs like "install the web server and make it go." 

As I type this, the site consists of nothing but a single page that says: "It works! AND it's modifiable! (Still)".  Tremendously life-changing, I know.  This is what you get when someone (namely me) is installing and testing web server modules one at a time while tracking down a syntax error in the config file.

Here's the thing, though--I pretty much expected that, since we haven't listed ourselves on any online directories, and we haven't submitted to any search engines, and we HAVEN'T ADVERTISED ANYWHERE WHATSOEVER (aside from verbal discussions with some friends), that I didn't really need to worry about what the Internet would think of / do to the site while I was working on it.

Hoo boy, was I wrong.

Checking the access logs, we've been getting hit since yesterday.  Google and Yahoo have both tried to crawl the site.  How did they find us?  By trolling whois.net for recently registered domains?  Google might have found us because we signed up to host our company email on Google Apps, but where did the hits from Yahoo come from?

On the one hand, I'm glad to get the exposure.  On the other hand, it's going to be a pain in the neck as they spam the logs and (shortly) index a site that is still in alpha.  On the gripping hand...hey, exposure.