Hey guys! I've been through hell the last month or so with spam traffic mixed with some fraud. This led me to thinking the business was actually growing at an exponential rate and led me to making stupid decisions off the perceived growth. To get more accurate info
Thanks guys!
- tightened up .htaccess
- Added more verification checks and rulesets
- IP-range banned countries that are no relevance to the site (ecommerce and only ships domestic USA).
- I installed ipqs.com due to a recommendation from a friend and it helped a lot in weeding out fraudsters/bad actors that would get through.
Thanks guys!