Quote Originally Posted by HeathenMagic View Post
I just wondered, I am doing the country ban using the setting in Abuseipdb. If I do that at .htaccess / server level, that would reduce lookups and stop daily exhaustion of 5000 allocated lookups I think? I am getting about 8 countries I never send to, with repeated spam bots that are showing up as bad bots on the tools I use.
That kind of blocking is outside this module not sure how that would be done exactly in .htaccess.

When you say country ban remember there tare two one is "Enable Country Flood Detection?" I wouldn't recommend using that one unless you really have to, since it can block IPs from within your own country (which is set in the module settings).

Instead, you can use "Enable Foreign Flood Detection?", which specifically targets traffic from outside your default country and is much safer in most cases.

Also worth noting — AbuseIPDB does offer paid tiers that increase your daily API limit. The first paid tier bumps you up to 10,000 lookups per day, and I believe the next one is 50,000 — you’ll want to check their pricing page for the latest details.