Crazy amount of guests

[thomas1]

We have completely blocked Bytespider, ByteDance, and BytePlus. They're just a waste of bandwidth and server resources.
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[Robf23]

Cloudflare has solved all the problems for us. It’s also filtering the vpn’s effectively so even the spoof registrations have dropped significantly.

 

[ES Dev Team]

Found more and it looks like these bots saturated the available tcp/ip ports numerous times last night..

#bytedance bots - unlabeled 01/25/2026 - DS
Deny From 45.78.192.0/18
Deny From 101.47.0.0/18
Deny from 101.47.112.0/20
Deny from 101.47.128.0/17