I was mentioning for 'Downloads' - hosted through IPS. Download application. It's similar to Resources application. For Ex:
IPS -> XF
Forum -> Forum
Gallery -> Media
Download -> Resources
Not really..... same product you get different prices on amazon, ebay, temu, etc... and at times it also depends on building long term relationship with your customers.
IPS 5 license is not good from renewal purposes. You miss 2 renewals and you have to purchase 500$ license again. Even Snag...
CF works really good.. as it blocked 10-30M request for us in few seconds.
Within CF you can deploy rate limit + block all IP's coming from datacenter through ASN. We block at ASN for VPN and Proxy providers.
You should never expose your webserver IP anywhere and accept incoming request from...
100%. But it's not easy to convert IPS to XF because XF doesn't support IPS File converter. It's actually major pitfall that XF team is not supporting it.
All this spam bots use majority of data center IP's or Proxy. Ban this IP's through Cloudflare firewall. Just couple of ASN's and you are spam free for good.
I have long standing ask i.e. convert IPS files/downloads to XF resources. Similar boat i.e. i can let go Pages, blogs, etc. content. However, downloads/files, I can re-upload all.
It would be nice if XF team can provide converters. IPS is just going towards the route, where they don't care...
With new XF versions on the horizon, checking for above. Need to make a decision to convert 2 sites to XF or not. Both heavily use IPS downloads, so want to check, if it can be converted to XF resources or not? Thanks
" XenForo 2.3 has been bubbling away for quite some time now and we are coming close to being able to show you the fruits of our labours. I'm confident you will all find something valuable in the new version when all is revealed. "
That was from Kier i believe in Sept... almost more then half a...