[kh99]

Originally Posted by michelle81

Also this plugin slowed my website down as well how would i stop that from happening can i tweak my settings in WHM

I looked at the code and it's very simple, so there's no easy tweak for speeding it up. Well, maybe there's a way to have a shorter timeout for fsockopen, if anyone knows how to do that.

You could also only turn on the registration portion. The "Prevent guests visiting your forum" checks in hook global_start, so basically every request, and there doesn't appear to be any check for guests only (but maybe the description meant 'guest' as anyone using your forum, registered or not). Maybe it could be modified to only check when posting (or maybe just check for an http POST).

I don't really understand how this works in general. I think it's been said before in this thread, but it looks like it checks the user's ip for open ports 80 and 443. Maybe a lot of proxies have those ports open, but they're also the default ports used by web servers, so you'd also be blocking anyone with a web server running from their ip (which as people mentioned earlier, could be your own web site, you company's, your isp's, or could just be the admin port on a router).