Ques/Help Battling Bytespider - discouragement mode not working (it did at first)

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A month ago we were overrun by the Bytespider bot and I added it to the robots.txt file. It worked for a month but a few days ago they came back in full force. We are on cloud hosting and as such have no access to the .htaccess file, so I decided to put the entire IP range the robot is using in discouragement mode, redirecting them 100% to some search engine. That worked for a day and a half. Now they're back and I don't know how this is possible.

Looking at the log, it says the...

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