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originally posted by: SkepticOverlord
originally posted by: Bone75
Has the occasional DDos attack become part of the business model around here?
Unfortunately. That, combined with ad-blocking, is quite literally killing us.
Our massive "footprint" of over five million indexable pages means that we get a crazy amount of traffic from indexing agents and other non-human bots.
48 Hours of Bot Traffic
bingbot..............................893,181
yacybot.............................363,352
Slurp.................................348,853
AhrefsBot...........................266,109
Yandex...............................263,876
Googlebot...........................163,393
SearchmetricsBot...................74,776
Baiduspider...........................62,636
GrapeshotCrawler...................19,500
MaxPointCrawler.....................9,882
Clickagy Intelligence Bot v2.......5,617
NetSeer crawler......................3,054
There’s a few smaller ones for a total of 2.52 million hits on content pages from indexing agents in 48 hours... which is an average of 14.5 hits from non-human sources every second.
The above bot activity also illustrates why we need to have an expensive hosting solution: 15 hits on database-heavy pages every second just to satisfy non-human web traffic.
originally posted by: SkepticOverlord
originally posted by: Bone75
Has the occasional DDos attack become part of the business model around here?
Unfortunately. That, combined with ad-blocking, is quite literally killing us.
Well You could lift weights or do smomething that makes you ................... How about that Bro?
originally posted by: TechniXcality
a reply to: Springer
well that isn't right at all, what can we do about it? what does the timeline look like?
originally posted by: TechniXcality
a reply to: Springer
well that isn't right at all, what can we do about it? what does the timeline look like?
originally posted by: Springer
a reply to: TechniXcality
Yes... He is.
It's like hearing the bank is reposessing the family home.