shutting site down

[Alexander Bogomolny]

Hello:

In the wake of a spider that went amock, I am faced with an estimate of $200 for the excess bandwidth by the end of the month. You know the alternatives.

I've been thinking of drastically reducing the traffic without completely shutting the site. One possibility seems to prepare a very plain page that explains the situation and let's everyone know why the site was shut and when it will be open again. I would have this page displayed on every access. Is this possible?

Thank you,
Alexander Bogomolny

[Alexander Bogomolny]

Ah,

just figured that out. The thing that appears to do the job is placing the following line into the .htaccess file:

RedirectMatch (.*)\.html /ShutDown.html

where ShutDown.html is the file that will be displayed on any access to the site.