Forum getting swarmed by 500+ guests?

[Rhindeer]

Currently a bunch of IPs from Huawei are going to town. xD Jeez, it's like you take care of one issue and a million others crop up! We got down to 100 guests yesterday after using the list, now it's back into the 500s. Ahhh!

[shawnb61]

Yep.  I analyze the logs about once a week...

[lather]

Thanks for this. I edited my htaccess file and guests dropped from 490 to 40.

[HITG]

Just for everyone interested a premium dns and crawlers delay code did the job. Also DDoS protection might be good for this but so far they are slowly coming in.