Its not normal to have high CPU usage because of this mod, it hardly uses any resources at all, it redirects right at page call so doesn't even allow your site to load for the banned list, however, if you have banned many things then they will be constantly redirecting, after a short while they will stop visiting your site.

I think you may have other issues going on here, it might be a point to hire Max or Ozzy to take a look at your site and get it optimized properly :)

Thanks for the reference but neither of us hires out, as policy. Ever. Made a exception and tried it once last summer though, on the insistence of the person we were helping. Didn't end well.

To marko - either of us would be happy to take a look at the situation, for free.

No problem, just thought you two now did it as a business, I haven't been on here in such a long while I'm out of touch :(

Since our negative experience last year, neither of us does much at all anymore. Ozzy even less than I unfortunately.

I have a user agent showing up in a regular basis, often dozens at a time.

The version is often 34, 29, etc (there are several). I have yet to find a legit user. What string would you suggest to send them on their way?

You can enter the entire string, that way you will only ban users with that exact useragent

If they're not doing anything malicious, what's the problem? Did you trace out IP addresses?

Blocking that UA string WILL block legitimate people. It's nothing exotic, it's a Windows 8 computer with only about a year or so old version of Firefox. It's not unusual for people to not upgrade FF.

Just something to think over.

Thanks for your reply.

All IPs resolve to China, Iran, Venezuela, Russia etc (at least the several dozen I have checked). I have yet to find one from the US, CA or AU (which are my primary audience). I often have 10-15 on the site at any given time.

Thanks for the tips guys and many thanks Max for your availability, I will write you a pm.

hi

after the install ... mit dis list

That isn't an issue with this modification as it doesn't use glowhostspamomatic. You also have a blank in your list, this could effectively ban everyone and everything!!

Add this to your config under <?php:

I have a dumb question. I'm up on running a forum and such, but not on SEO and what these spiders and bots are actually doing. Since installing this product, I continually notice that the blocked spiders number keeps going up...at an alarming rate. First it was a few hundred, then it was a thousand, and now its about 8100 blocked spiders at a given moment. That was about 3-4 weeks ago. What's going on? Is this something along the lines of, "block them and they will come?" I fear the day that this plug in gets disabled by accident or whatever because the floodgates might come bursting open.

Which bots are showing as increasing in numbers? it's more than likely the same bot that keeps changing IP address, don't worry it will settle down.

I just wanted to thank you for this. My site had slowed to a crawl with page load times of 15 seconds and I did not know why. I installed this and my page loads are now mostly under a second.

I had no idea these bots and spiders were doing this to me..after a week I see this.

Spiders/Bots Activity Blocked From Site: 102,285

Thanks again, much appreciated.

I suspect that you have some other process issues that are affecting load times but I'm glad this has helped.

Do take a look at your images that your site has, try to use a CDN to deliver them or maybe create a sprite to contain them all and deliver the images from sprite coordinates, also look at which scripts are called on page load, sometimes its best to try and minimize these and minify your JS scripts, this might help https://hostway.com/blog/10-ways-to-...e-load-faster/

Its a bit of work but well worth the effort.

I also have been using this product for over year and initially it wiped 90% of the traffic, as they were bots but over time the number has gone back up again.

I would assume what we need is a new list of bots?

Have had a search around but cant find one???

I am using this updated list as per a few posts back:

I just installed this on 4.2.5, and as soon as I have it installed, this is showing up on the left upper side of my header where the logo is.

Could anyone tell me if that can be fixed, and if, how ?

Thanks in advance.

Wolf

Seems to work fine for me on VBulletin 4.2.5 so the error above in @WOLF-G4MIN-X's post must be the Glowhost Spamomatic mod incompatibility mentioned elsewhere in the thread.

I havent seen this before and it doesn't use the bootstrap, This loads at every page call which prevents the spiders actually loading a page, so it could be a third party hack that doesn't like it being loaded, you could change the load order in the products page of admincp, normally most hacks are set at 5.

I installed latest version of hack but it not stops huawei crawler service I see multiple entries that are online for example
ecs-159-138-101-77.compute.hwclouds-dns.com

ecs-159-138-109-55.compute.hwclouds-dns.com

Just use this in your ban list,
compute.hwclouds-dns.com

I did, it's not blocked.Still showing in online list
Is the latest hack compatibile with 4.2.3pl1 version of the forum?

When you say "online list" are you using another hack like Paul Ms Who's online....etc?

No, thats the only hack I'm using to ban spiders.
User agents appear under forum user online list , it can be up to 20 entries in the same time.

Forum is behind cloudflare.

Can you PM me a link to your forum?

sure

Simon did you checked the forum ?

hwcloud is still browsing

Hello,
i have also blocked the bots but still seeing them in forum online list.
Anyone with the same issue ?

What other hacks do you have installed, like PaulM's Who's Online....etc?

Hello,
I have below attached plugins at the moment :

It's possible it's either a bot where you havent actually got the right user agent string or if it is a plugin clash it will only possibly be VSA advanced forum statistics......my money is on the UA string :)

Sorry, its been years. But has the bot list been updated?
I'm still getting 100's http://www.metallifukinca.com/online.php

thanks

Sorry, I've never kept an updated list as it's a personal thing, there will be users of this mod that may be able to share theirs with you, but you'd be better of customising your own for which bots are allowed information from your site or not.

anyone have a update list please

Even if someone provided a list it would be what's important to them to block and might not suit you or your users as some of the user agent strings of your users may contain something being blocked.in that list.

btw the way it works on 4.2.6. pho 7.2 no problem