Site not accessible twice – OK without AntiBots

Hello,

This is just informative description of problem I had twice.

I am not 100% sure AntiBots is the real problem but the fact is that my site runs fine once Antibots is removed…

I found twice my site displaying a running “Loading” message (home page and some other but not all) and at the same time accessing the admin URL (not the default one) returned a Forbidden error (I guess code 403).

To be complete, I must say that the site is OK (with no AI bot at all) for about 2 days before becoming not accessible. The 2nd time, I was able to connect to admin again after clearing hosting cache (LScache) for the domain.

I have more than 70 plugins and AntiBots tool reported sometimes some javascript error generated by 2 other plugins. I am conscious that the problem can be caused by some conflict with any of those but my site is not a lab I want to use to troubleshoot anything.

AntiBots is very powerful but too complicated tool for a Webmaster lambda like me (and yes, I read your warnings before using AntiBots, they were right).

After second time same problem, I removed AntiBots and all runs fine now…

Again, I can’t say AntiBots is the only problem but my site works fine without it (except many AI bots crawling site stealing intellectual properties and site resources). I will switch back to manual .htaccess method even if not as efficient as AntiBots.

Could be I’ll try again your promising plugin after a few months of evolution and I am sorry to provide only such few information on the problem seen.

Eric Collart