On Tuesday, April 30, 2013, Christian Folini wrote:
> But you can try it out for yourself easily with > 2-3 ModSecurity rules and the "pause" directive. > Someone suggested the same idea to me and I tried it out on one of my servers by setting PHP as the 404 handler and having it loop there. (which saves you the trouble of setting up mod_security if you already have PHP). I noticed increased server load and no decrease in bot requests. - Y