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[Anthony]

19 hours ago, Dallas said:

Currently I am noticing a huge amount of "users" coming from China, which can only mean trouble. It could be a group of spiders crawling the site. Unfortunately this results in a drain on server resources so I have taken the action of blocking all the known Chinese IP ranges from accessing the domain name. I will be monitoring this to see if the blocking has the desired effect. Hopefully it doesn't block any of our usual visitors. 

 

Interesting, how can they get in without registering?

[Dallas]

1 hour ago, Anthony said:

 

Interesting, how can they get in without registering?

 

I believe it was search bots, Anthony. The changes I made to the system seem to have sorted it out. At one point yesterday there were over 700 "visitors" concurrently browsing the site. Down to the more usual 40 or so today. 

[crowecg]

7 hours ago, Dallas said:

 

I believe it was search bots, Anthony. The changes I made to the system seem to have sorted it out. At one point yesterday there were over 700 "visitors" concurrently browsing the site. Down to the more usual 40 or so today. 

Obviously searching for a better quality of photograph!

[Dallas]

Today the bots seem to be coming from Singapore. Can't win! 

[Hugh_3170]

China reportedly has several battalions in its Peoples Liberation Army who are made up of top notch cyber experts whose mission it is is to trawl through everything and anything out in cyber space.  Nothing is safe anymore.  And who is to say that the Singaporean bots are not controlled from outside of Singapore.

[Dallas]

I have also just checked on my Google Analytics and there is an inordinate amount of browsing of the site coming from Chicago, Illinois. I mean like 20x the usual amount of traffic from the USA (which is usually predominantly from the West Coast). Interesting...

[CarreraS]

How are you on paranoia .. ? ..😎