Google Chrome Proxy - sever overload

WorkinOnIt

• October 31, 2018 20:56

I have an issue similar to the one posted here on stackexchange webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/72258/why-is-google-downloading-binaries-from-my-web-site-and-using-bandwidth Occasionally, my server experiences out of memory issues due to massive flood of hits from what appears to be the google chrome browser proxy which seems to be crawling and heavily caching multiple site resources. Is there a good method to try to rate limit such IP ranges?

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  cPanelLauren

  • November 02, 2018 14:21

  CSF/LFD offers connection limiting - it wouldn't be just for those IP's or a range of IP's though, if enabled it would be for all IP's. I'm not aware of a way to ratelimit a specific IP range.

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  WorkinOnIt

  • November 08, 2018 23:51

  Yes, I'm aware of that feature - I just wondered if anyone else experiences these random surges from Google Proxy IPs and how else to handle it? It's like a DDOS and appears to be only for one site. I'm not able to find much from Google other than this Data Saver - Google Chrome

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  millermulti

  • November 15, 2018 12:32

  I have been having the same issue where my server is flooded with requests all in a matter of seconds all from a group of IP's which show as being owned by "Google Proxy". After further research I believe what is happening is that Google has started a new Proxy service. Although the requests are coming from a Google IP they are most likely not originating from Google. The originating IP's are being hidden by the Google proxy IP. For now my solution is to ban the range of proxy IP's within CSF.

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  WorkinOnIt

  • November 29, 2018 22:56

  I've not really managed to solve the issue myself - other than adding the IP block to CSF which is not ideal because I believe this is Google Proxy (chrome browser data saver feature as mentioned above). I am looking at installing

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