Excessive GET requests

  • Resolved sannie

    (@sannie)


    1 year, 8 months ago

    I recently moved to a new hosting service and everything looked fine at first… but checking my resource usage, my site is hit with an EXCESSIVE (think *thousands*) of GET requests to my uploads folder (images in various sizes). The request IP seems to be coming from my own new hosting service’s data center. I haven’t figured out what is happening (and neither has their support). Has anyone had that happen before? My Google searches have been fruitless so far.

    Many thanks.

    Example:

    2023-03-24

    20:38:01

    2a02:4780:b::84

    GET /wp-content/uploads/2014/06/333836107_770660161352305_5277064087043839310_n-320×320.jpg HTTP/1.1

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    United States of America

    0

    5894

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  • Hi,

    Given that the requests are originating directly from your hosting provider’s IP address, it’s likely that the requests are originating from your own site i.e. scheduled actions.
    I’d recommend communicating/resolving this further with their support team.

    Thread Starter sannie

    (@sannie)

    Thank you for the reply. I had already contacted support but they hadn’t been able to figure it out – even though they said they could see that the requests were coming from their own hosting server.

    I did some more digging – the usual “trial-and-error” stuff and figured out last night that a plugin was the culprit. Would have expected for support to find this/suggest it, but oh well.
    Case closed ??

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