Slow board

[Hervé]

Hi,
I see a lot (130 at this time) of guests facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
It does not seems to slow my board but I don't like this.
Purging the cache doesn't change anything.
Is it possible to forbid the access like I did for claudebot ?
Thanks

[janus_zonstraal]

Yes you can do it the same way as claudebot

[Hervé]

Thanks for your fast reply.
I don't know the syntax, can you help ?
This is what I did for claude

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BrowserMatchNoCase "claudebot" bad_bot
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=bad_bot

Is it simply to add a line

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BrowserMatchNoCase "facebookexternalhit" bad_bot

[ssl]

Replace your code like this:

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BrowserMatchNoCase "claudebot" bad_bot
BrowserMatchNoCase "facebookexternalhit/1.1" bad_bot
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=bad_bot

and clear cache

[Hervé]

Hi,
Done but still 129 guests "facebookexternalhit/1.1"
Pehaps should I wait until their current cessions started between 07:53 and 07:55 (it is 09:00) are ended.

[ssl]

Yes you have to wait. Currently the number of guests on your board is minimal.

[Hervé]

Right, only 4 YandexBot/3.0, thanks.
Instead of blocking each bot one by one, is there a way to limit the nomber of cessions a same bot can initiate ?

[ssl]

What would be the difference between banning a bot and banning a cession? Especially since this cession must be defined on a specific bot and not on all bots.

[Hervé]

I don't want to ban A cession instead of banning A bot; I don't want to ban all bots either.
This morning I had 130 cessions for the same bot.
I would like to limit the number of cessions a same bot can initiate whatever the bot : is it possible ?
Or possibly limit the total number of bot cessions.

[ssl]

Adding the name of a bad bot to the .htaccess file will ban all these cessions

[Hervé]

I would like to avoid blocking bots one by one.
This is out of the subject "Slow board", I will open a new one hoping to get answers from others.