ByteSpider

[scooter]

I know you're reading this, so...is it really necessary to have five instances of your bot crawling all over my forum at the same time?

You need to check your algorithms.

[[Dimetrodon]]

Have you tried adding it as a bot?

[scooter]

Have you tried adding it as a bot?

Done. It's Amazon's spider, and it is hammering the board of late. I had a new high of 21 "users" a few days ago and I'm betting that's what caused it.

[[Dimetrodon]]

Have you tried adding it as a bot?

Done. It's Amazon's spider, and it is hammering the board of late. I had a new high of 21 "users" a few days ago and I'm betting that's what caused it.

Bizarrely enough, if the sid is removed from the url, it can cause multiple sessions to open up, which is what the bot was probably doing.

Most of those other sessions tend to be older and inactive with the bot inadvertently opening up a new session for every page it accesses. Now that it is a bot, that should be prevented.

If it accesses the board too many times to where it causes actual performance issues, you can block it: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2550501

Normally it is harmless, but some malicious clients have used the bot in a much more shady manner,, though my experiences with it have been benevolent.

[scooter]

It's still hitting it regularly - seems to be the most active one out there - but I do notice fewer times when multiple sessions are going at the same time...

[scooter]

It's still hitting it regularly - seems to be the most active one out there - but I do notice fewer times when multiple sessions are going at the same time...

"Regularly" seems to be something of an understatement. It's rare that I log in now and don't find ByteSpider logged in and scanning away. I can't figure how this is a sustainable algorithm.