Originally Posted by chandrika

Thanks that is great I am going to try and implement that as soon as possible.

It is very timely advice, as a few weeks back I had a problem with the way I was trying to identify and stop bad bots, too many redirects meant it somehow stopped cron working, so i needed to do something else.

My server actually went down this afternoon, first time in ages that has happened, overloads on sql and was thinking that has been caused because since removing the old code i had to avoid too many bad bots, that they were again accessing the site making too many requests. So thanks and I will let you know the results of implementing this after some time.