[PHP] Detecting massive web hits

2013-04-12 Thread Angela Barone
Does anyone know if there's a ready-made script that detects if someone hits multiple web pages within seconds of each other and then can temporarily ban them by IP from accessing our site? Looking through the logs, I see someone/something hit each and every page of a site I

Re: [PHP] Detecting massive web hits

2013-04-12 Thread Samuel Lopes Grigolato
I don't know exactly how search engine spiders work, but just be cautious to not block these users, they aren't customers but they may bring you some =). Again, I don't know if this is your case, but the possibility sparked on my mind anyway. Cheers. On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Angela

Re: [PHP] Detecting massive web hits

2013-04-12 Thread Sebastian Krebs
Nginx has builtin support for this and I assume, that there is something similar for Apache. I don't think PHP is the right tool. Am 12.04.2013 17:24 schrieb Angela Barone ang...@italian-getaways.com: Does anyone know if there's a ready-made script that detects if someone hits multiple

Re: [PHP] Detecting massive web hits

2013-04-12 Thread Frank Arensmeier
12 apr 2013 kl. 17.23 skrev Angela Barone: Does anyone know if there's a ready-made script that detects if someone hits multiple web pages within seconds of each other and then can temporarily ban them by IP from accessing our site? Looking through the logs, I see

Re: [PHP] Detecting massive web hits

2013-04-12 Thread Matijn Woudt
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Angela Barone ang...@italian-getaways.comwrote: Does anyone know if there's a ready-made script that detects if someone hits multiple web pages within seconds of each other and then can temporarily ban them by IP from accessing our site?