This will still put a very load on your php and thus, your copy of vBulletin (your community).

If you had this in away which would not affect php, but rather affectively run this on the server level... It would be something worth looking into.

On your paid version, this maybe true.

But again... You're free version seems useless. It offers nothing new, that can not already be done without installing your "mod".

It is my opinion .... That this is just another "try" to market your paid product here (again).

I know of no other vBulletin mod that can block access from particular countries. Country blocking is a valuable and useful service and it's free in BlockScript.

We use BlockScript on two busy vBulletin forums and we have found that blocking unwanted traffic helps us to get better performance from our websites.

Thanks for the feedback.

If you're using GeoLite as DB for blocking countries, installing mod_geoip and setting up mod_rewrite to deny requests from country ranges seems way more effective since this works with deny / allow before even PHP gets active.
Just mean it's useless to drop traffic via PHP since the traffic already reached it.

And about the other things - decent firewall and mod_security offer the same options in a way better way - including logging and all the other things.

Just my opinion - if one wants to block, best do it at the first levels (Firewall, Webserver) instead of the last levels (PHP script etc.)

Something like:

Will redirect all US users to /msg/error.html. Efficient, free and everything is logged in the access or error log of the Webserver before PHP even gets active.

Should be more efficient than letting PHP parse everything. Bots and Proxies - well - mod_security can take care of them :)

This a vBulletin plugin. Angel-Wings' suggestions might be useful for those who are comfortable administering a server and know how to block countries, configure firewall rules, setup mod_security, and maintain a database of over 20 million proxy and hosting provider IP addresses. If that doesn't describe you then maybe BlockScript can help.

blockscript.com mentions "purchase" i think i smell spam integrating vBulletin into a commercial product then post the plugin here nice one to boost your sales... since the plugin needs the blockscript

From their home page:

So full features for one week, after that only access to the core features.

Edit: Upsideout, where did you see a clarification on those 4 core features listed?


How do we know from their site what is a core feature and not? http://www.blockscript.com/features.php that is not clear and I would personally like some clarification on it as I assume others would before installing ;).

There are many vBulletin plugins that provide both a lite and a commercial version and BlockScript is no different. As has been mentioned previously, this plugin provides valuable and useful services (such as Country Blocking, Custom IP Whitelisting, Custom IP Blacklisting, and Logging of same) for free. We also provide a one week free trial of the commercial version.

I believe you were posting just as I finished editing, could you see my edit above please? Thanks :D.

This was the case before (from blockscript.com)http://www.sociallyuncensored.com/fo...s/rolleyes.gif

And while I "personally" still think this "mod" does not offer anything of value. At least this release does offer "something" to those who install it (other then a 7 day demo).