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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Having posted about my Cloudflare rule order earlier, I think I have 3 and 4 (after block rules 1 and 2) the wrong way round...
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    Alvin63 reacted to puterfixer's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Oh this is soooooo satisfying to watch. There's a small wave of bots trying to crawl my forum again. They hit CloudFlare's rules...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    I have a rate limiting rule - 10 in 10 seconds because 10 seconds is the only option on the free plan. Anything less than 10 in 10...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Wildcat Media's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    I'm trying a rather radical (yet very simple) "nuclear option" rule, which I mentioned earlier in the thread to see if we get any...
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    Alvin63 reacted to BrettC's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Looks like they implemented Cloudflare and some other provider today. Their forums are back to normal speeds. Just goes to show how...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    It's like swatting a swarm of midges. There needs to be some sort of deterrant.
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Well it seems I slightly underestimated the scale of the bot attack. As things seemed back to normal and I have all my rules blocking...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Thank you that is really helpful. I think I'll have a breather now the Cloudflare rules are working and hopefully the numbers will stay...
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    Alvin63 reacted to BrettC's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Feel free to DM me your servers real IP address behind the Cloudflare route. I can poke about and do some checks on my end. From...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    No evidence of origin leak but Claude seemed quite upset that the logs showed Anthropic got rate limited a few times! 😂
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    I reverted the .htaccess and downloaded the logs again about 10 minutes later and Claude has decide it's exactly the same re the images...
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    Alvin63 reacted to BrettC's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    To be honest, and this is just my own opinion on the matter, indexer bots really don't need to "see the image", so long as the images...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Thanks. So in that case maybe it's normal for Googlebot and other known bots not to be able to see images? As they are guests too.
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    Alvin63 reacted to BrettC's post in the thread Crazy amount of guests with Like Like.
    Guests are not permitted to view the non-thumbnail of attached images. I could see the attached image within posts, but poking the image...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Crazy amount of guests.
    Thank you. I'd better check my ASN block list then as I did block something in Indonesia.
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