Lodestone data web service access

[drumz]

How is it that you are parsing the lodestone data, and how long have you been successfully doing it? I had written my own signature grabber a while back in php. It parsed the lodestone every half hour to update my signature with my character's data. Now, after a couple months, it appears I have been blocked. All I get when I try is "The server is experiencing unusually heavy traffic. Please try again later. " I discovered this today. When I loaded the page on a different webserver, it grabbed the data just fine. Trying to figure out what caused me to be blocked. Half an hour too frequent to look up one page? I had read some forums online of others having this same issue.

How are all these signature generator websites able to constantly update tons of player's signatures without being blocked?

[xhyperx]

How are all these signature generator websites able to constantly update tons of player's signatures without being blocked?

Most sig servers I know of, update on a 24hour basis. 1/2 hour is too frequent and probably is what was the cause of your server being blocked.

The shortest updating server that I know of, that remains up and running, is 3 hour minimum, and doesnt even update automatically...it must be user triggered. Of course a sig server wouldnt be very good if it did that...but Im just saying.... timing is considered a big issue...so...