Performance Systems International

My website is visited twice a day by someone or something from Performance Systems International. Each visit is without a referring link and each time the D-block of the IP address (38.98.19.DDD) and the location of the server are different. Is this a search-engine bot spidering my website? Does anyone know which search-engine is behind it?

 

It's just basically a bot. Some more information is available at webmasterworld: http://www.webmasterworld.com/search_engine_spiders/3081823.htm

 

Nice find! Cheers, mate!

 

With a bit of help from this nice tutorials about blocking bots through .htaccess and IP banning through .htaccess I added the following lines of code to my .htaccess file:

<Files *>
order allow,deny
deny from 38.
allow from all
</Files>

Code (markup):

Since the Performance Systems International Inc owns the entire IP range from 38.0.0.0 to 38.255.255.255, I decided to block them all.

 

If you setup IP blocks, you may want to have a system to alert you to changes in the IP allocation status. (Just in case, in 5 years there's a new Google and you are blocking it