The reason I am asking is that my ubbt_ONLINE file is filling up with the 14400 max number of records. I run a script every hour via cron to truncate the table. About 1000-2000 new records are added per hour.
This is fixed in v8 as well as via
this postWhat is the purpose of the table? I haven't yet seen any problems due to truncating the table every hour.
It is the Who's Online database, it tracks who is where and where traffic is originating.
It is apparently bots that are trying to access the ubbThreads system repeatedly, I am seeing a lot of IPs in ubbt_ONLINE from Russia, China, Thailand and other countries where I have no clients. Is there someplace else I can activate Captcha to stop the bot access? I don't know where they are entering the system.
Any ping to the system will be logged there, it's triggered for every visitor to the forums.
UBB.threads does not limit data, these are generally search engine crawlers or pings from bots. If you want to limit traffic to your site from abusive bots and AI then I'd recommend utilizing a Content Delivery Network such as CloudFlare.
