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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    It wasn't Chinanet was it?! That seems to be my big one and apparently it has millions of IP addresses.
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    Alvin63 reacted to badabugs1's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Yes, that's pretty much the conclusion I came to as well. Changing the origin IP would certainly stop anyone using the old one, but I...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Not really. It has reduced the numbers so some are getting caught. It does help to reduce the load. And also helps see which ones are...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Thank you for that. I've saved it. I've been doing some of that (checking server logs) which helped me establish a few things but there...
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    Alvin63 reacted to badabugs1's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Love Love.
    How I reduced the huge guest/bot traffic with Cloudflare and protected the origin server After experiencing the same huge increase in...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Anyway the managed challenge reduced them by about 500 but they are still getting through from India, Brazil, Indonesia and many other...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Thank you - as I can't do it anyway now due to cpanel/shared hosting, maybe I'll try and work that out another day :-) I was given the...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Well it was feeling quite chaotic :-) Especially when I suddenly had members, who looked and sounded genuine, joining up from...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Anthony Parsons's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    The biggest problem I can see in your htaccess, is that you aren't denying everything else. Its one thing to put CF IP's in htaccess...
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    Alvin63 reacted to wwillson's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Cloudflare helps a lot, but you have to put many hours of work into the config. I downloaded crawler IP json files from about 10...
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    Alvin63 reacted to BrettC's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Various websites that I host have been the target of these mass scraping/ingesting events since Summer of 2025. The problem is, this is...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Thank you! Chinanet apparently has over 110 million IP addresses according to AI. Quite a few of the ones in my guest list start with...
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    Alvin63 reacted to BrettC's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Love Love.
    Well, since you're limited on most of the aforementioned options, here's some files that could be utilized somewhere. I need to know...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    So my update is 1) Server doesn't accept whitelisting Cloudflare IP's in .htaccess (shared hosting). 2) A lot of the bots are bypassing...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Anthony Parsons's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Everything depends on what you have. Talk to your host, they are the right people, because they know the platform and any limitations.
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