Admit it, a lot of your traffic is spambots. I know I see a lot of traffic from other countries to my blog for various reasons, and a good portion of them are SPAM. Blogging aside, what if you’ve got a community site that only a limited number of users will need access to? Well what about using that .htaccess for the purposes of keeping everyone else out!
That was the problem I ran into with one of my community sites. I was getting daily notifications of “new users” most of which were obvious combinations of a first-name/last-name dictionary attack, using out-of-country email addresses or free domain email addresses that require no invite, from IP addresses of non-community origin. I needed to remove the annoyance of these persistent email notifications. The solution was to eliminate access to the site from outside my community. (more…)
Tags: .htaccess, apache, blocking IP, blog, forum, SPAM prevention, web
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