vb.org Archive - View Single Post - Bots are devouring my monthly execution limit/bandwidth. Love some help

Max Taxable · #27 12-21-2013, 11:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by obglobal.net

Tens of thousands over a month's time. They're doing basically everything they can to sweep the site, including 200+ registrations per day.

I've added mods to stop them from registering, but it still racks up on my monthly executions limit.

To help further I would need access to see this for myself and check some things out in the backend.

However testing your site shows you have bigger problems than bots - bandwidth usage just for pageload is off the scale and that is not bots causing that:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/13..._8R/1/details/

LATER EDIT: C'mon Man, you don't have a bot problem at all. Never did have. Here's stats from your forum home page:

Currently Active Users

There are currently 20 users online. 0 members and 20 guests

Most users ever online was 61, 05-23-2013 at 05:06 PM.

That's nothing.

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