Ban43 (Ban For Free)

Feed43 now features Ban43 (Ban For Free) -- an automatic abuse detection and banning system. This system polls server logs periodically to analyse for abusive user agents/crawlers. The rule is simple:

• Request any of Feed43 feeds for 24 times in a 6-hour frame (approx. 1 request per 15 minutes), and your IP will be banned temporarily (for 6 hours).
• Request any of Feed43 feeds for 180 times in a 6-hour frame (approx. 1 request per 2 minutes), and your IP will be added to permanent ban list.

Banned IPs are denied access to all Feed43 feeds and feed creation/editing facilities. You can see the list of currently banned IPs here.

You are kindly requested to obey 6-hour poll interval for any of Feed43 feeds.