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So I just got a server with Plesk as “controlpanel”. The first thing I notice is that I dont really know where I should go to do thing since everything is named in a weird way.
If you’ve tried cPanel, you know directly where you should go to do stuff. This is NOT the case with Plesk.
I dont know who made this piece of crap or what they where thinking but I got to tell you, it really is crap. It’s like a maze. You look for a place where you think you’ll be able to change a setting but it will be in a place you would never have guessed.

Here is a picture of the main Plesk-programmer and his product Plesk.

The structure of this crappy “controlpanel” is so extremely bad. My hostingprovider gave me this controlpanel for free but I just asked them to install cPanel. I dont mind paying $20 extra per month for cPanel as long as I dont have to use Plesk.

DO NOT USE PLESK.

Lots of people want to block Baidu spider since it does not care about robots.txt and it might just eat your servers resources.
For those who doesn’t know what Baidu is, it’s a Chinese search engine.
I have a big vBulletin-forum and Baidu really gives the server a very hard time, it’s constantly on the forum indexing stuff. It’s a forum in a European language so I dont really see any users from China so why would I need Baidus spiders? So I blocked them.

This is how you can block Baidu too.
Find your htaccess-file. If you run Windows on the server you’re out of luck but most Linux-servers seem to use htaccess.

Log into your FTP, check for a file called “.htaccess” and open it. Add these lines to the top of the file:
BrowserMatchNoCase Baiduspider bad_bot
Deny from env=bad_bot

And save it. If you dont have a “.htaccess”-file, create one in notepad and save it as “.htaccess”. If it doesn’t work, you might have to ask your webhost what’s wrong.

If you’re thinking about blocking Baidus IPs, you’ll have a lot of work to do since you’ll have to block IPs nearly everyday. Baidu seem to get new IPs all the time. So the most easy way to block Baidu is to do it with htaccess.