Recent content by Jja

I am perfectly aware of how fail2ban works. I don't see how you manage it successfuly when you have thousands of bot sessions. Your logic - Cloudflare is bad but let's allow bots to scrape.

Why bother with fail2ban and the traffic which still reaches your server? Using Cloudflare you can configure many settings to reduce unwanted spam traffic. I have monitored some of the bot traffic and have placed Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure, Alibaba, Huawei ASNs behind a challenge in the...

"service" is not installed

And then they buy new cloud-services and have new ip address range...

It wont work for "real targeted" attack, but why for situations like these you dont add separate CF WAF rule just for the useragent?

If have no access to server mysql tuning you might try to change xf_session_activity table storage engine to InnoDB

Its not the Xenforo problem itself but server configuration.

Doesnt change the fact. Guests, bots also uses sessions and are stored in the table as well.

Not properly configured (tuned) server for given application/traffic. I would rather ask "how full is full?" Whats the setup of actual mysql config + available resources ? Thats exactly what this table contains.

Just use without panel.

Hello, I have made a page under "nodes" section using "Template HTML" and added it to the "public navigation". Everything is working, but this bare html (which i was using to write page) is being indexed in the forums search results. Is it possible to disable so it is not being shown in the...

Still interested in answer. If before given elasticsearch configuration will result with the same search results if given keyword will be "email" or "e-mail"?

I am looking at something similar as topic author but with symbol "-" like e-mail or email. If you are not using ES and try to search e-mail it will of course result with error "The following words were not included in your search because they are too short, too long, or too common: e" If i try...

Ok, i understand that given 2.3 updates includes better optimization, but what are the real life results - google do respect them and rank your results higher and really have more traffic after upgrading?

Exactly my thoughts - this option/addon should be by default in the "core".