BassMan
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You're blocking amazonaws bots?
Is your forum being hammered by Bots?
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RandallC
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I might need to now, but since I blocked OVH my "guest" count on the forum is down which is fine because they are not real users and I think my spam problems what few got registered will go unless they get on a different subnet.
Which if you look here you can see all the IP addresses users of OVH could use. https://bgp.he.net/AS16276#_prefixes
Which if you look here you can see all the IP addresses users of OVH could use. https://bgp.he.net/AS16276#_prefixes
Ozzy47
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On some sites, yes, usually at the server level.
RandallC
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Yes, That is one of the OVH (http://ovh.com) ip ranges. I do not know if they are spam related or what but that is the ones that was hitting my forum pretty hard.
Alpha1
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Just add CloudFlare. It makes a lot of difference. My site was getting hammered by a mass of bots. Spam, scrapers, probing security weaknesses, DDoS, brute force login and just generally useless traffic consuming resources and bandwidth. All solved by adding cloudflare. I should have done that years ago as it would have saved me so much headache. And now bandwidth and SSL is free, so its actually much cheaper than without.
JoyFreak
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What do you mean? I am with CloudFlare but haven’t seen an impact on bot activity?
Mendalla
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I wouldn't say mine was being hammered but after reading this thread, I checked my Guests. 55 with a large number having semrush or OVH IPs. Blocked those those IP ranges in cPanel and now I'm down below 20 guests with a few OVH addresses still showing that should go away eventually. I'm going to probe the remaining IPs to see if I find anything else interesting.
Useful thread. I haven't really been paying much attention to the Guests until now.
Useful thread. I haven't really been paying much attention to the Guests until now.
Ozzy47
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When you find a bot you want to block, you add them to your robots.txt file like so.
Code:
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /Note that most bad bots are going to ignore it though.
RandallC
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But my forum is geo and niched. I don’t need other country’s or even states for my forum to maintain.
Ozzy47
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MySiteGuy
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On non-cached pages, GTMetrix is showing 800ms time to first byte, about 4 times higher than Google Pagespeed recommends.
There's simply no way to avoid it, non-cached pages are going to be slower using Cloudflare, because there are actually two sets of connections the data must go though both directions.
browser request --> cloudflare --> server
server response --> cloudflare --> browser
There's simply no way to avoid it, non-cached pages are going to be slower using Cloudflare, because there are actually two sets of connections the data must go though both directions.
browser request --> cloudflare --> server
server response --> cloudflare --> browser
Arty
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Then you have something wrong with your server. Cloudflare shouldn't add that much.
Test this: http://api.iconify.design/fa-home.svg?height=512 and change height to something random to make sure its not cached. Loads in about 100ms for me. Not cached, so goes through Cloudflare to my origin server.
In Cloudflare settings make sure you are connecting to origin server with HTTP, not HTTPS. That reduces page loading speed because when CF connects to your server it doesn't need to do handshake step.
Test this: http://api.iconify.design/fa-home.svg?height=512 and change height to something random to make sure its not cached. Loads in about 100ms for me. Not cached, so goes through Cloudflare to my origin server.
In Cloudflare settings make sure you are connecting to origin server with HTTP, not HTTPS. That reduces page loading speed because when CF connects to your server it doesn't need to do handshake step.
