Good advice from everyone. :)

Nothing wrong with having more than one a administrator. Many forums do this and I can't see any problem with it. :) Maybe it's your personal preference, I don't think it's a general tip though IMO. ;)

Good tip on not promoting people who ask to be moderators though - hate people who do that! (and I also never give them mod status if they ask, especially if they do it in public!)

It is a bad idea because you're effectively giving the keys to somebody else. They can then wreak havoc when they want.

The good thing about vB3 is that you can set Administrator Permissions, so you can block them from any options in the Admin CP individually. :)

Also in vB3 you can make sure your other Admins can't change the locks on you. :)

I think having some adminstrators that you can trust is not a bad thing, however database access and/or FTP access is website suicide.

Website suicide... sounds like a new band. ;)

In refrence to additional admins. I had someone I thought I could trust when we started ,and they took the liberty of downloading their very own copy of the data base and tryed to clone my site....Good tip,,,,

You have to make sure you can trust them BEFORE you admin them. I have adminned several people, although there was one which I adminned out of pity for the hell of it, and he took the liberty to take advantage of me setting debug mode on and deleted all the settings.

But now that I have (rather, had) admins that I can trust, I haven't had any problems.

Where is the setting to ban search bots so I can check my settings?

Thanks

Doug