2023/04/24#p1
Getting absolutely hammered by bots today:

I'm going to have to change the mechanism from blocking individual IP addresses to ranges.
2023/04/24#p2
I think I might have to stop the blog sending me emails when a login attempt is blocked, only sending the failed attempts so I can block them.

I just disabled all emails from my blog and turned on push notifications. Game changer! This sounds counterintuitive but for me push notifications are way easier to ignore and the don't need an explicit interaction with it (like deleting).
Nice.
That's it an option for me with this system but once I've reworked the blocking feature to look at ranges (and checked it's working) I'll be able to stop most of the mail's. I want to receive the ones advising of a failed login attempt. I don't want to implement an auto-block just in case I mistype my password and block myself 😆
I finally decided to try checking against IP ranges rather than individual addresses in my 'login blocking' feature. As a test, I am using a MySQL que…