Hi,
Believe it or not 50% [at least] of all traffic right now is bots...
these usually originate from Russia, China & the Ukraine - check your own stats, you'll see for yourself.
it's not only useless traffic to you [not real visitors], it also slows down your sites
A. for real visitors = putting them off with slow page load times
B. for search engines = hurting your rankings, costing you free traffic
& it prematurely costs you in needless server upgrades...
especially as the volume of bots goes up on your sites, so does the burden on your server, meaning it's only a matter of time before your site hits its "load limit", even when most of the bandwidth is being sucked up by useless 'bots'! :-(
"Unlimited Bandwidth" plans won't save you either, as the problem comes down to the maximum number of requests your site can handle and that's determined by your website & your server hardware.
There's only one simple solution that I know of and it:
~ makes no changes to your site or your server - so no risk of sites breaking
~ will block bad traffic before it hits your site without burdening your server with the workload
~ causes ZERO downtime when you switch
~ is a one off 'lifetime' investment
~ will speed up your site WITHOUT plugins by up to 100%
~ gives you 'Failure Redundancy', in other words if your server goes down your site will still be up
~ guards you against Google penalties & Competitors
The Solution is Cloudflare, and it's Free!
It's used & trusted by over 1/2 million websites including Nasdaq, Cisco & the White House & it's the most powerful security you can deploy to protect your sites.
There is one 'small' problem though, it's a bit of techie headache to get it all setup and working properly, which is why many webmasters have shied away from it...
but not any more, problem fixed!
Click the button below to see how for yourself: