Way too much Bandwidth being used

360webfirm

• April 20, 2024 13:06

Good morning.

I have been seeing a TON of bandwidth beingb used on one account and it looks like its coming from Go-http-client.

Another thing to note is that there are three small videos on the website in question and according to Awstats, this is what the above BOT is concentrating on, the videos as the videos are the ones that is being used or what spammer or BOT is using to eat up the websites bandwidth.

I dont think this is a Google BOT and I am trying to find a way to block this BOT if possible or any other way I could stop the videos from being used as spam on this website.

 

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

 

thanks!

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • April 22, 2024 16:06

  Hey there!  If you can find the user agent in the logs you could use a traditional robots.txt to block that content.  You could also block the IP address at the firewall to completely block their connection:

  https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/360053047414-How-to-Limit-Crawlers-Bots-From-Crawling-Your-Site

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