Check out the latest revision of the gist. I have added some explanations. Do you think this implementation will work more efficiently or less efficiently? What

Check out the latest revision of the gist. I have added some explanations. Do you think this implementation will work more efficiently or less efficiently? What kind of statistics do you collect in the database? Is there anything interesting in these statistics? Is collecting statistics worth the performance slowdown that occurs? How effective is banning a client by IP/IPv6?