Crazy amount of guests

[smallwheels]

For anyone who wants to stop all proxies, without issue or further concern: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/xtr-ip-threat-monitor.10134/

I am using it too and like it. Solid and does work very well since the latest versions. However: I would not sign this:

blocking all proxies and VPN's that are nasty

By default it misses most of the resident proxies. It does catch data center based stuff to a high degree. To block resident proxies you have to block ASNs or countries with all the colateral damage that this may cause.

Also, it get's the data what to block from the proxycheck.io API and to use this does cost money (free up to 1000 queries/day, but even my small forum has more that that). The amount of queries depends a bit from the settings of the add on, however, if you want to block ASNs you have to query every IP.

While I really like the add on there are some things that I would like to see, especially better analytics. Lets hope that development continues as fast as it was in the past.

 

[ES Dev Team]

I've seen 10,000's-100,000's of unique IP addresses at times, yeah, that wouldn't work for me.

I'm not surprised that residential proxies walk through it!

 

[smallwheels]

I've seen 10,000's-100,000's of unique IP addresses at times, yeah, that wouldn't work for me.

The pricing of proxycheck.io is affordable in my opion:

pricing / proxycheck.io

proxycheck.io pricing, we offer free and paid plans.

proxycheck.io

The add on builds up a blocking list and countries are checked via a local maxmind database in the meantime. After a couple of weeks and with the actual version of the add on roughly 2/3 of the IPs visiting my forum are checked against the API

I'm not surprised that residential proxies walk through it!

The initial idea of the add on was flood protection: Loads of requests from one IP within very short time lead first to captcha and then to block. So basically it initially targeted the classic scraper and not at all resident proxies. At least in my forum the classic scraping with loads of requests from a single IP does not happen any more.
ASN blocking as a feature was added after a feature request from my side and this is a life saver for me.