Use one of the stop forum spam add on's from vbulletin org, and add them to stop forum spam when you ban them
Set the ip check period to 90 days
It should reduce spam by a lot
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Im still in the planning stage at present, finding what code I need to back up for custom pages, what pages I will need to have htaccess diverts in place for etc
The 3.x > 4.x series upgrade...
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Questions about the upgrade service
Im looking into upgrading my forum, using the vbulletin upgrade service and I have a couple of question
There is mention a vanilla upgrade, I take it that means you end up starting over with...
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Another free option that can reduce unwanted traffic a bit is Cloudflare
Its also fairly straightforward to set up
Use them as a firewall and you can also block ip's to your hearts content...
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If you use the mod I linked to above, you might find its a simple case of blocking a limited ip range
The AhrefsBot that was hitting me all day long 24/7 was a simple block 37.58.100.
That...
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Paul M has a mod on vbulletin org for tracking guest visits
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=232182
Set that up on your forum and you can then see who or what is hammering your...
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Are you running any kind of "stop forum spam" integration?
That you can set to block known ip's and email addresses
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In your cpanel, go down to logs
The two you want to look at are
Choose Log Programs and Raw Access Log
In choose log programs, un tick any of the logs programs that are running
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I dont know if this will help at all.
I did a bit of trouble shooting on my own server over the weekend.
Turning off any stats and logs programs in cpanel has freed up a lot of cpu and memory...
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I found that the forum display edit was something to do with me.
Found that one edited on my hard drive.
Had a hard drive take a permanent vacation since that happened.
The strange...Last edited by Lee G; Sat 6 Aug '11, 5:49am.
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If your forum is aimed at a certain region of the world, there is or was a mod that checks registration ips.
It automatically moderates new members from the countries you choose
Certain countries...
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Looks like it might have been a false positive this time
As soon as I added evolve chat bar the errors came in
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=258158
Uninstalled the...
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