Quote from: DirigeNos 8/6/2026, 9:10:12 PM
Yeah, the past week it's been really slow. It seems faster tonight.
I wrote a script to automate the harvesting of bot IP addresses. However, I still have to manually add them to the blacklist.
Nevertheless, I am able to catch WAY MORE of the bot traffic than I could before. My only worry is writing to my hard drive so often, I don't want to wear out my SSD hard drive (those things are rare/expensive now).
So I have to balance a bit.
But I added HUNDREDS of IP address *ranges* today. Each of those ranges I caught with three OR MORE IP addresses in the same block hitting my site at once -- which is never the case with legit traffic.
When you have
120.1.45.4
120.1.45.15
120.1.45.23
all hitting your site at the same time -- that's a commercial setup. That's not organic, personal, residential browsing.
Meanwhile, while I was running my script today I noticed I had over 11K connections on the router -- usually it's more like 4K. So yeah, that would explain the slowdown. Some bot net hit my site hard today. Probably AI related harvesting, but I'll never know for sure.
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