On my to-do list, for if I become the boss of everybody.
lol... I get it. It is not rocket science. Sometimes in life one has to change their lifestyle to secure themselves and their clan.
It is the same with websites... :)
I have found flood control applied on the index page and registration feature to be priceless in application.
We even had a member who works for Comcast abuse his access to customer accounts mass hit us with purpose.
Set up as we are, it was like waving away a fly even with the low bandwidth on our hosting.
So basically, rather than make the field venue bigger to hold more from all directions, you fence it and put in skinny gates where they have to turn sideways to get in...
Same amount of folks can come and go, but the flow is controlled and can be monitored more closely. Much easier to check their pass before they can breech without a pass and use up all your toilet paper. lol
:)