High CPU usage and site limited

  • Resolved tschureman

    (@tschureman)


    2 years ago

    I got a notification saying that my CPU seconds was reaching its limit. I contacted Siteground and was told I was getting a ton of hits from one IP, which from what I can tell is a Google IP. I am at a loss as too how to fix it. Here is the IP and the request type:

    IP: 35.208.161.132 WordPress/6.1.1; https://agirlandherpassport.com
    Request type: 35.208.161.132 agirlandherpassport.com – [23/Nov/2022:18:24:00 +0000] “POST / HTTP/1.1” 200 21023 “https://agirlandherpassport.com/” “WordPress/6.1.1; https://agirlandherpassport.com” | TLSv1.3 | 0.506 0.529 0.533 – 0 NC:000000 UP:SKIP_CACHE_SET_COOKIEDT

    My site isn’t accessible anymore due to this. Any ideas? Thanks!

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  • Davesjoshin

    (@davesjoshin)

    Probably time to block that IP address. Do you have security plugin installed? Like WordFence or something like that? You can add the IP address to a blocking list. Siteground might also be able to block this IP on their end if your CMS is no longer accessible.

    Thread Starter tschureman

    (@tschureman)

    I have Wordfence. It says it’s a Google IP, though, so I am not sure if that is the best option.

    Siteground gave me back access so I could try to resolve the issue.

    If you don’t want to block the IP and are pretty sure its a Google crawler, I would suggest reviewing your robots.txt file. Use this to tell the crawler what it can and can’t crawl.

    https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro

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