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Very kind.  As to hosted sites, I've had good luck searching through the Security and whatnot forums at http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ . On the other hand, a lot of the steps described in the article are still applicable to a hosted environment if you have mod_rewrite available, i.e., use an .h...

I just wrote up an article on this subject at my blog here: http://www.thiscanada.com/2005/10/04/keep-out-bots/ If the Moderator(s) feel that it is worthy of full-text inclusion in the Joomla! FAQ forum, go right ahead.  Also, any critiques would be appreciated as it works for me in a home-server in...