Originally Posted by princesspepper (Post 2526133)

Installed on VB4.2.2 PL2.

One question that I can't seem to find in the first few posts of this thread that usually explain stuff.... Why would you choose to redirect the bot back to itself? What function does this have over redirecting to a url?

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd (Post 2526073)

The hook is style_fetch, you can try changing the hook for one of the others that loads before all the others but you may not see the result your looking for, doesn't hurt to try :)

Originally Posted by ozzy47 (Post 2526087)

Ha Ha Ha, I have been testing this out for the past 10hrs or so Simon, to early to tell yet, but so far looking good.

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd (Post 2526073)

banning by .htaccess is fine if you only have a few things in it because it is read with every single server request, so if you have 10 blocks in your .htaccess and lets say you have a web page with 30 elements (icons, css, containers, includes.....etc) then each one of those that tries to access that page has 30 checks made just to load that page.

Now consider your own landing page and check how many things load to make that page up and you'll soon see why having a lot of bans in your .htaccess can be detrimental particularly if you are on shared hosting or limited vps.

@Gadget_Guy & Max Taxable
The hook is style_fetch, you can try changing the hook for one of the others that loads before all the others but you may not see the result your looking for, doesn't hurt to try :)

Originally Posted by princesspepper (Post 2526133)

Installed on VB4.2.2 PL2.

One question that I can't seem to find in the first few posts of this thread that usually explain stuff.... Why would you choose to redirect the bot back to itself? What function does this have over redirecting to a url?

Originally Posted by CAG CheechDogg (Post 2526228)

I have had the ip blocks in my htaccess for over 5 years my Man and I haven't ran into any problems in those 5 years ..

If an IP is blocked on your server it's not allowing the page or any page to load, so I am a bit confussed about "so if you have 10 blocks in your .htaccess and lets say you have a web page with 30 elements (icons, css, containers, includes.....etc) then each one of those that tries to access that page has 30 checks made just to load that page."


As a matter of fact, when I didn't have these IP blocks in my htaccess file I was constantly getting emails from my host that my site was being suspended ... by blocking these IPs I am keeping them from even accessing anything on my website or forums ...thus the usage of resources went down ...