DDos attacks are not really a phpBB question, they are more a hosting question.
That said, have you looked that phpBB's Who is online and in particular make sure you 'Display guests' and then look at the Guest User-Agent strings.
There are a number of recent topics here regarding specific bots/crawlers such as Claudebot, GoogleOther, Chinese scrappers to name a few, and some ideas on how to manage them in ACP->General->Spiders and Robots or other mitigation methods.
That said, have you looked that phpBB's Who is online and in particular make sure you 'Display guests' and then look at the Guest User-Agent strings.
There are a number of recent topics here regarding specific bots/crawlers such as Claudebot, GoogleOther, Chinese scrappers to name a few, and some ideas on how to manage them in ACP->General->Spiders and Robots or other mitigation methods.
Statistics: Posted by P_I — Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:16 pm