Google bot killed my web server

I am the owner/web master a new large website with approximately
300,000 pages of items and categories http://www.CellUp.com I
created and submitted my site map about five weeks ago. For that last
week google bot has been attacking my server for a few hours each night
the site is all dynamic written in asp.net with sql server 2000 as the
database. I'm using a URL rewriting ISAPI filter so that the URL's
appear to be static HTML. for the first eight days of August I google
bot has hit 352,059 pages on my server. The problem is that I'm getting
around 20,000 hits from the google bot per hour on some nights and the
sql server is getting overloaded with all of the requests which is
resulting in errors on a few of my other sites. I've read about adding
a delay directive to the robots.text, but I've read that this can
actually cause the googlebot to just not request the pages on the site.
Is there any one at google that can post some advice on how to slow
down the googlebot or perhaps let the engineers know that this is
happening? I've done a few searches and I'm not the only one that is
having this problem. 100,000 hits in one day is a little excessive in
my opinion. I would like to avoid buying another server just to handle
all of the extra googlebot traffic.

 

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