Well, I bit the bullet and implemented (free) Cloudflare on my site. For now, I have no caching, as I didn't want to change too many variables at once. I turned on all the bot fighters and put the site in 'under attack' mode for now, and also blocked all access from Singapore (which was at least half the bots), Brazil, India and China. It took a while for the bots to get the hint, but 5 or 6 hours after implementing all this, my 'guest' count is down dramatically (1800 this afternoon; 100 now). Will watch it closely, but Cloudflare seems to be working... knock on wood...
Statistics: Posted by CPTOM — Sat Apr 19, 2025 1:41 am