linkup

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  • linkup commented,

    1. Community
    2. Security
    3. bandwidth usage causing problems

    Thanks very much...I am sure that will help...turns out the worse offender after evaluating four domains is one called "nbot".  That bot does not appear on a good or bad lists I found but on a smal...

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    bandwidth usage causing problems

    1. Community
    2. Security

    Hello,  I run a small server with about 50 domains.  Of the 50 domains, four of them are constantly being hammered, presumably by bots. 1.  worst one is the domain of a retired university professor...

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  • linkup commented,

    1. Community
    2. Security
    3. Seems my own server is hammering a domain?

    Was doing more research, and it seems the biggest culprits are two bots, Bytedance and Bytespider, said to be from TikTok. It seems they ignore robots.txt, htaccess, etc.  Some success with WAF.  I...

  • linkup commented,

    1. Community
    2. Security
    3. Seems my own server is hammering a domain?

    I don't even know what Nginx is so I doubt I have it.  In fact, I just checked for it in the cPanel and it gave me the option to install it, which presumably means not installed. The bot's IP addre...

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    Seems my own server is hammering a domain?

    1. Community
    2. Security

    I got a warning message about high bandwidth usage on a domain.  I checked AWSTATS and found that the traffic was coming from the server's IP?? 17,389 pages and hits 909kb of bandwidth The bandwidt...

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  • linkup commented,

    1. Community
    2. Security
    3. Server getting slammed with PHP and Emails

    I submitted a ticket, hopefully I can get some assistance. Thanks

  • linkup commented,

    1. Community
    2. Security
    3. Server getting slammed with PHP and Emails

    I assumed a DDOS would be so severe that it would stop the server from processing real data? This seems to be more benign, someone hacking, someone spamming. I have had the server used to forward...

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    Server getting slammed with PHP and Emails

    1. Community
    2. Security

    Hello, The other day I noticed some domains had really high usage, i.e. from 25-90% of the server resources. I think they were all WordPress sites. I made sure all of the sites had all the plugi...

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  • linkup commented,

    1. Community
    2. Email
    3. Suddenly I have an Authentication issue.

    That log file would need to be examined on the command line of the server. If that isn't something you're able to do, or not comfortable doing, you can always reach out to your hosting provider t...

  • linkup commented,

    1. Community
    2. Email
    3. Suddenly I have an Authentication issue.

    Thanks, but I don't know how to do that. I looked through the email options on the dashboard and I only found the mails it had received and how they were processed. Don't know where or how to see...