70,000 hits a day on a single post, webhost about to shut me off

  • Spambots seem to have targeted a single post on my website for mass assault. Despite wordpress’s own stats reading only 100 visitors a day on my site, on average, my webhost has warned me that they’re going to shut down my account if I can’t solve the problem that my site is getting viewed/hit 200k to 300k times a day, particularly a single post, heiseheise.com/2192 which was just 2 paragraph long entry with a link to a wordpress video (it was just a commentary on a wordpress version update!).

    I’ve disabled /2192 now, and also renamed my wp-comments-post.php page to .bak for the time being. But I’m worried that this won’t be enough. Of course, I’ve had Akismet enabled for 6 years, but starting back in August 2013 I went from 6,000 blocked spam per month to 1.5 million a month. I left a screenshot of this here.

    Anyone have any idea about what I can do about this? I don’t want to get shut off by 1and1.com (yes, I know there are better hosts out there but the hassle of migrating makes me leery.).

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  • hi i have a question a bout you blog on hacking a kindle lockscreen

    Stopping bot attacks like this is best done at the firewall, before they get to the server. If your hosting company is seriously worried then they could do this, but as I’m guessing they won’t, you will have to investigate some other options, like setting up some entries in your .htaccess file to deny the IP’s, etc, that you need to. That’s something that’s (very) far outside the scope of this forum, but there’s a lot of more advanced forums around that will give you a whole lot of information on that.

    Thread Starter heiseheise

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    That was a good idea, catacaustic. I edited the .htaccess using this method to prevent direct assaults on the comments file. Time will tell if that helps.

    diamondkurt – comments on my blog are back up. Leave one there with your question and *if* I can help you, I will. Bear in mind, though, that I don’t own a Fire and all I’ve ever done with it is pretty much summarized in that post. You’re better of posting in XDA-Developers or some other Kindle-centric forum; I only posted on my own blog because I saw no one had talked about doing that yet.

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