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[Oleks]

Hi,
I have some "Visitors" who are visiting 1,000 pages of my Web site per 24 hours.
How to limit number of pages per visitor (IP) per 24 hours?

Thank you.

[joekushner]

isn't it the point to have traffic to your site?

why would you want to limit access? sure theirs a way it can be done... just kind of an odd request

[EvilMan]

Yes, your right. It is very odd, my advice, don't limit or else u will notice ur visits be down to 0 very quickly. Think of how may hits verizonwireless gets from one ip a day?

[mr_wuss]

I doubt he is getting traffic live verizon, and I doubt he has the potential revenue from those visitors.

Perhaps he has but a few pages and those users are abusing his server by constantly requesting a refresh non cached page.

You can limit them via a cookie for a simple solution. Or you can have a flat db (or true db) file that is updated dymanicaly when a user visits. Adding to the page views total for that IP. After a certain # you can redirect them to a page stating they have reached thier limit.

Or, you can then start placing more ads on the pages, you make some extra $ for the views, and they get to continue to surf your site.

[bashprompt18]

Originally posted by mr_wuss
Or, you can then start placing more ads on the pages, you make some extra $ for the views, and they get to continue to surf your site.

I like this idea!

-John

[catfishing]

Oleks,

Are you sure this isnt robots from search engines conducting crawls?

I recently had 1 burn 688 Megs of bandwidth, it was MSNbot.

MSNBot -- 13099+236 -- 688.17 MB -- 26 Dec 2004 - 06:48

[catfishing]

Or could be an e-mail bot scanning for open e-mails?

[mr_wuss]

The logs would show if it were a well known search engine crawl.

Most (read not all) name thier bots well enough they can be pointed out.

And to stop from being crawled so hard, if the content you have is not worth being searched drop a rule in the dir for that robot.

IE, You have a dir that just contains bs random info, drop it in there and the next month remove it. That way you still get crawled, but not all at once.

[EvilMan]

how would he drop it in there?

[bashprompt18]

Originally posted by techteen
how would he drop it in there?

htaccess file should do the trick.

-John

[Oleks]

Originally posted by catfishing
Oleks,

Are you sure this isnt robots from search engines conducting crawls?

I recently had 1 burn 688 Megs of bandwidth, it was MSNbot.

MSNBot -- 13099+236 -- 688.17 MB -- 26 Dec 2004 - 06:48

Hi,
My “friendly” visitor is 66.194.55.242
7854 Pages; 804.10 MB

[Cyberspeed_Mark]

You may consider having a PHP- or ASP-based application developed to limit your visitors' access. A more reliable way than simply preventing access based on the IP is to require a username/password for those areas. The (good) side-effect is that you also now have a user registration process that gives you a valid email address to which you may market your own services (if any).

If you do not provide any services of your own, then at the very least you can send out a weekly or monthly newsletter with advertisements.

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Mark E. Bembnowski, Owner
Cyberspeed Solutions
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