Millions of page hits. Why?

[TimothyJMcGowan]

Did you pick the wrong word? Surely that should be set to No; right?

From the text on the page in Settings:

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Add No-Cache HTTP Headers
Selecting yes will cause vBulletin to add no-cache...

[TimothyJMcGowan]

Copied and pasted from the AW Stats report in CPanel, which simply seems to call them pages, not requests. I'm confident you know better than I what it actually means; I know what it says: pages.
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[TimothyJMcGowan]

Does this help? I compared the IP addresses shown in CPanel's AWStats with the IP addresses vBulletin logged when the users signed up. (We opened less than two months ago, so the IP addresses used at...

[TimothyJMcGowan]

That's the point: The highest hitters were our own actual users. I know it sounds like DDOS. That's why I started just blocking IPs as a stopgap measure until I could figure out what was going on. And...

[TimothyJMcGowan]

I've cribbed this query from a SiteGround support tech who escalated my problem there. I'm asking it here in the hope that this is a common enough problem that you can spot the solution.

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[TimothyJMcGowan]

I know this is five years later, but we're using 5.3.4. The advice above does not seem to apply anymore.

We have users who can get 40 messages per screen, and the setting in AdminCP >...