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Old 02-20-2011, 05:42 PM
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I am not 100% sure where I should post something, when I want to share something with this community. Or if even sharing such information is allowed. If this is in the wrong forum or sharing resource information isn't idea here... Please let me know for future reference's.

I recently have discovered a free services (they have a paid version too), which has stop almost all forum spam, blocked almost all proxies, blocked unwanted cyber bots, and even help block someone from cyber attacking my community.

So I thought I'd share the link.

http://www.cloudflare.com

They basically route all your traffic through their DNS Servers. And it doesn't block valid users out right... If a valid user does something that could be thought of as "high risk", they are brought to a challenge page (most to confirm they are human). They require you to make 1 small template edit.

http://www.cloudflare.com/wiki/VBulletin_3.8.4

They say this edit applies to vBulletin 3.8.4, but I found it useful on my copy on 4.1.1 also.

Not sure if I'm doing a good job on explaining what they do. But they have a few videos for others to see and learn what they offer.
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Old 02-20-2011, 08:13 PM
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Basically they act like a giant proxy server, your dns [for your site] points to thier servers, so a connecting client connects to them, and they then connect to your site. Thats why you need to make the edits to class core, without them all traffic to your site would appear to originate from their servers, so they pass on the original ip as an http variable.
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Basically they act like a giant proxy server, your dns [for your site] points to thier servers, so a connecting client connects to them, and they then connect to your site. Thats why you need to make the edits to class core, without them all traffic to your site would appear to originate from their servers, so they pass on the original ip as an http variable.
Thank you for explaining this a little better then maybe I did.

Their modification did seem to make my site a little fast though.

I also find your modification (Proxy to Real IP Conversion) helps in so many ways.

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Cloud Flare IP > Proxy IP > Real IP
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Old 07-25-2011, 02:34 AM
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URLJET has this on cpanel by default. I didn't know about it until now. They started last month. I will activate it today.
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Old 07-25-2011, 12:34 PM
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If I blocked proxies I'd lose half my traffic...
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Old 07-25-2011, 12:39 PM
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Not a good option if most of your members are from Asia.
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It's not blocking my members at all and most of my site's Asians are South-East Asians from North America or the UK so I'm good to go.
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It's not blocking my members at all and most of my site's Asians are South-East Asians from North America or the UK so I'm good to go.
It doesn't block but that message can get annoying. I know I get annoyed.
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I can't even get this working right...
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There really should be no real setup once you click that button in cpanel.

What are some issues you are having?
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