[Midohash]

Originally Posted by Simon Lloyd

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

Your mod is highly needed Simon and has helped me significantly when I was on shared hosting in reducing the server load and saving bandwidth when bad bots used to hit heavily and unnecessarily my site :up:

However I have two queries here:

1- How the mod would differentiate between good bots like Google for instance and bad bots if they send higher than the threshold you have already set?

2- What is the difference between banning bad bots through this mod and that through the .htaccess?

Thank you

Mido