well done, mark installed

Glad its helped you:)

I'm looking for feedback guys!
Would it be beneficial to automatically ban bots that exceed x number of bots at any one time?

So, the likes of Baiduspider send around 200 at any one time, so if i entered say 150 (in place of x) in a settings box then they would automatically get added to the ban list, let me know your views as i'm not going to work on something nobody feels is needed :)

It's not a bad idea but is probably not needed. I think most any bot that would "exceed a certain number" would probably be a bot we are already blocking by name with this. I guess it would be nice to have a second log of the bots that are coming through if that is possible, then we could tell if it was necessary.

One thing I wouldn't mind seeing is options to choose both filename and directory for the bot output file(s). An option to be able to show the most recent bots at the top of the file (reverse of how it saves now) is something I would like too, not sure what everyone else thinks.

I like this idea and would most definitely like to see this feature added. :)

Hi,

I would like to ban Amazon AWS EC2. I have tried AmazonAWS and Amazon AWS EC2. Any suggestions please?

Thank you.

Check out the links i've given in the mod description above entitled : How do i ban a bot?
it should explain how to find out their exact user agent :)

That's a hosting service. Why are they spidering your site? Are you sure that's correct?

Based on research a number of people recommend blocking AmazonAWS. What do people on here recommend?

I suspect accounts held on some of their servers are of no use to your forum and are scrapping content or emails..etc

Banning bots, as i've always said is a personal thing :)