User registration on this website will be fully back online soon

Question

User registration on this website will be fully back on soon.

I'm currently turning the user registration on for an hour or two at a time, unless we start getting an influx of malicious signups, which sometimes we have had that occur.

In those cases then I have to shut the user registration back off soon, but am working on getting the malicious users stopped so I can leave user registration on fully.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Some users have been able to signup during the time I had the user registration open again.

Answer 1

I totally understand why you had to turn the registration off and on.

If you use Cloudflare, I would set under attack mode on and see if it stops the malicious user bots signing up?

I run a forum myself and had been getting lots of malicious signups and had to turn on under attack mode temporarily and the malicious bots stopped.

However you can't just leave the under attack mode on as it will also block Google search bots and other good bots and even some legit users.

But it's a temporary measure, while real users can signup and then you can turn it back off and then turn the user registration back off for awhile again.

Hopefully you find a way to stop the malicious bots.

My own forum and blog was taken down during the Cpanel hack but thankfully I had some offsite backups and got it back online on a new server.