On one of the forums I run i've noticed lots of visitors/guests in the last couple of weeks. Sometimes up to 60-70 at a time.
It's quite a small forum, around 800 users, with say a max of 10 people on at any one time, so I was quite suprised to see 60-70 people active.
My first thoughts were bots, but these all seem to have unique IP's?
Any ideas what it is/how to stop it as I don't want them eating away at bandwidth etc and it must have an impact on the speed of the forum.
Screeny of admin area:
http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=forum7jk.jpg
Thanks in advance.
It's quite a small forum, around 800 users, with say a max of 10 people on at any one time, so I was quite suprised to see 60-70 people active.
My first thoughts were bots, but these all seem to have unique IP's?
Any ideas what it is/how to stop it as I don't want them eating away at bandwidth etc and it must have an impact on the speed of the forum.
Screeny of admin area:
http://img115.imageshack.us/my.php?image=forum7jk.jpg
Thanks in advance.