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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

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Preliminary Information What are bots? all you have is the web statistics provided by your web host or a free web statistics and analytics service you wont be able to get the information you need to block the bot. Once youve located the entries that belong to the bot, look for the IP address and the user agent string.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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To the best of my knowledge US law allows you to work on your own resources and in your own hours and let you personally own your IP. In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify in an employment contract that ANY IP you develop while you’re employed by that company is owned by them.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. That means, the Web server has to deal with the same load as with a GET request , it just deletes the content portion (the compelety formatted HTML page) when responding, after counting its size to send the Content-Length response header.