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[Skyon Archer]

Bot tracking, no. Bots themselves, yes. A person can write a malicious bot that hits your site so much it uses up all the site's resources.

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Here's your situation.

The provider is hosting 5,034 amount of forums (as advertised on their website). On average, a MyBB forum conducts an average of 40,000 SQL queries a day.

The 40,000 is based off of the MyBB forum here at Planet Nexus

Note: there are around 60 queries on the index page, 80 on the forum listing page and 80 to 110 on the thread listing.

So, that would be an average of 200,000,000 (two hundred million) requests being handled a day for all of the forums they are hosting.

Now, say each of those requests have a payload of 1 kilobyte each, that would equal to 200 Gigabytes of data being transferred between the server and the forum.

That 200 GB does not include any of the other stuff being served by their server like the forums code itself, images, scripts, attachments, etc.

Nonetheless, if you owned that company and could turn off the tracking of bots on the online users list, you could reduce hundreds of SQL queries! That means a lot of data transfer savings!!

As such, it's only common sense for them to cut out things that happen on the server, like database queries.

Hope this makes sense to you.