Hi,
I've got a forum on a site of mine that is now about 15 years old and has been running vB for at least 10 of those years. It is currently on 4.2.2.
Because the site was at one point quite popular I have been fighting a battle against bots and spammers for seemingly forever. At times I am able to get a handle on it and then they always return with a vengeance. I have tried everything I know of to fight this. I have installed protections that prevent them from actually making bogus postings, but lately they are just hammering the site with so many requests that I am getting hit with massive bandwidth overage charges. So they are costing me money despite not actually being effective at what they are trying to do.
Due to life changes of my own I have not been able to keep the site updated and so at the same time this is happening the use of the forum by real people has dramatically dropped off.
Are there any tools, 1st or 3rd party, version 4 or version 5, anything, that I can use to get the traffic related to this forum under control? If not, at this point it seems my best option is to shut the forum down. I don't want to do this but I am not sure what else I can do.
Thanks.
I've got a forum on a site of mine that is now about 15 years old and has been running vB for at least 10 of those years. It is currently on 4.2.2.
Because the site was at one point quite popular I have been fighting a battle against bots and spammers for seemingly forever. At times I am able to get a handle on it and then they always return with a vengeance. I have tried everything I know of to fight this. I have installed protections that prevent them from actually making bogus postings, but lately they are just hammering the site with so many requests that I am getting hit with massive bandwidth overage charges. So they are costing me money despite not actually being effective at what they are trying to do.
Due to life changes of my own I have not been able to keep the site updated and so at the same time this is happening the use of the forum by real people has dramatically dropped off.
Are there any tools, 1st or 3rd party, version 4 or version 5, anything, that I can use to get the traffic related to this forum under control? If not, at this point it seems my best option is to shut the forum down. I don't want to do this but I am not sure what else I can do.
Thanks.
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