Any suggestions on whether or not to ban - country/top-level? My htaccess has a few dozen IP's of bandwidth hogs (and of course the reg .mil/.gov) but I wanted to see if anyone out there bans entire countries? ie.. .mx, .cn, etc.. Gigs of traffic going to third-world countries and shit for sales, so I'm not sure...
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i've never done that. do you have some type of password sharing script in place? is the bandwidth legit or are people sharing passwords?
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I host a free affiliate site and run TGPs. I just 403'd an IP in Kuwait who had logged 1655 minutes of connection time with 71 page views. I've got scripting to stop all the fusker-type hotlinking, however, I'm at odds on how to deal with visitors from the Phillipines, Mexico, China and Korea using site-rippers. They rank among the highest bandwidth users and I'm not getting any referral sales. Not sure if folks are just using open-proxies or what - but I'm getting ready to just ban the top-levels. These countries are burning at least 3 gig a day from me - but I hate to see a legit customer get 403'd.
Wanted to see what others are doing to deal with this.Comment
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Beginning to think it's just gonna have to be on a case-by-case basis. I've been careful not to ban backbones, thus far. I just wish there was an easier way or if CCBill/Verotel provided IP ranges to afillliates. Hell..CCBill just added the time stamp, so I guess IP's won't happen for another year or so.
BTW: I have yet to find a way to ban WebStripper. - even using the RewriteCond/HTTP_USER_AGENT} command. It does nothing and I've already had a rather "nice" discussion with the
guy who wrote the code for this "browser" - mind you a browser that ignores robots.txt and doesn't identify itself in log entires.
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