Hello,
For the last couple of months my forum has been running very slow due to a huge increase of "visitors". There are always over 1,000 users online permanently of which almost all are "guests" (only about a dozen are "registered" or "hidden" users). This of course is affecting the loading time of every page which may take as much as 15 seconds now.
When I click on "Who is online" and then "Display guests" I notice that many of those "guests" have IPs from Brazil.
I also went to my server's Control Panel to check "Awstats" and confirmed that my forum is currently getting most of the traffic from Brazil. This is odd since 95% of my visitors used to be from the USA, UK, and some EU countries, but no Brazil at all. In fact, there are no real users from Brazil registered and posting in my forum.
This is how my Awstats look like now:... and this is how it used to be only a coulple of months ago:So, having identified the problem, I was wondering if someone could tell me the best way to deal with this. How can I block all traffic originating from Brazil from reaching my forum? I would not mind doing that if that fixes the unaceptable loading times of my forum.
Thank you for your time.
For the last couple of months my forum has been running very slow due to a huge increase of "visitors". There are always over 1,000 users online permanently of which almost all are "guests" (only about a dozen are "registered" or "hidden" users). This of course is affecting the loading time of every page which may take as much as 15 seconds now.
When I click on "Who is online" and then "Display guests" I notice that many of those "guests" have IPs from Brazil.
I also went to my server's Control Panel to check "Awstats" and confirmed that my forum is currently getting most of the traffic from Brazil. This is odd since 95% of my visitors used to be from the USA, UK, and some EU countries, but no Brazil at all. In fact, there are no real users from Brazil registered and posting in my forum.
This is how my Awstats look like now:... and this is how it used to be only a coulple of months ago:So, having identified the problem, I was wondering if someone could tell me the best way to deal with this. How can I block all traffic originating from Brazil from reaching my forum? I would not mind doing that if that fixes the unaceptable loading times of my forum.
Thank you for your time.
Statistics: Posted by sopas — Fri Feb 14, 2025 12:57 am
