eJM
Thu 30th Oct '08, 4:13am
Last April, I was inundated with bots whose IP addresses all resolved to onlinehome-server.com. They were responsible for my "Most users ever online" at 499. I have a small niche forum and I just don't get that many visitors in a day - not even close. I'd like to, but...
Somehow they got removed from my IP deny list in .htaccess. Today they came back. The screen shot below shows only 23 visitors, but an hour ago there were over 150 and only a handful were legitimate.
Who are these people anyway? I went to the domain and it was German 1&1.com, but is that who they really are? A couple years ago, I was hosted by 1&1, but they turned out to be pretty bad for a small forum with less than half the members I have now (1,800+) - lots of database errors every day, page lag and poor support, none of it from anyone who speaks English as a primary language.
I added the domain name to my deny list and the bots began to get error and no permission messages. Notice what they are all doing - trying to send email and PMs. SCUMbags!
Good riddance. I was wondering if any of you got visited by the same bots? I did a search on Google, but didn't come up with any complaints. Maybe now there will be one. ;)
R'gards,
Jim McClain
Somehow they got removed from my IP deny list in .htaccess. Today they came back. The screen shot below shows only 23 visitors, but an hour ago there were over 150 and only a handful were legitimate.
Who are these people anyway? I went to the domain and it was German 1&1.com, but is that who they really are? A couple years ago, I was hosted by 1&1, but they turned out to be pretty bad for a small forum with less than half the members I have now (1,800+) - lots of database errors every day, page lag and poor support, none of it from anyone who speaks English as a primary language.
I added the domain name to my deny list and the bots began to get error and no permission messages. Notice what they are all doing - trying to send email and PMs. SCUMbags!
Good riddance. I was wondering if any of you got visited by the same bots? I did a search on Google, but didn't come up with any complaints. Maybe now there will be one. ;)
R'gards,
Jim McClain