Shared Hosting Sites Crawling Each Other

  • Resolved daphnetalbot

    (@daphnetalbot)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    This is a bit odd and a bit convoluted. My hosting company says no worries but I should check the blogs. So here I am.

    It seems my websites are somehow crawling each other and they shouldn’t be.
    I have a shared hosting server using PLESK running with Apache.
    90% of my sites are using WordPress.
    All WordPress sites have the Wordfence Premium Plugin.
    Wordfence shows that my sites are being crawled every 15 minutes by my hosting server. No traffic should come from my server.
    Here is the confusing part:

    Domain1.com’s Wordfence logs show Domain2.com crawling it, about 10 pages in seconds, stopping and then doing it again every 15 minutes.

    Domain2.com’s PLESK Access logs show that at that exact same time as the Wordfence logs, IP xx.xxx.xxx.123 (just an example) having been blocked by Apache from bad behaviors.

    Domain2.com’s Wordfence logs show Domain3.com crawling it, about 10 pages in seconds, stopping and then doing it again every 15 minutes.

    Domain3.com’s PLESK Access logs show at that exact same time as the Wordfence logs, IP xx.xxx.xxx.456 (just an example) having been blocked by Apache from bad behaviors.

    This daisy chain of events cycles through all 67 domains on my shared IP. I just noticed this last week. All sites are have WordPress and plugins up-to-date. I have another shared IP and the same thing is happening on it as well.

    The shared hosting situation will stay as is. Other than that has anyone seen this? Is there a concern here and if so how do I stop it?

    Thanks,
    Daphne

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  • Hello, Daphne, & welcome to the WordPress support forum. First, let me apologize for the slow response. Sometimes, as volunteers, life gets in the way of being able to respond as quickly as we’d like.

    I would be concerned about that, yes, as it shouldn’t be happening. Could you provide some examples? Please paste your log in , i.e.

    log entry 1
log entry 2
log entry 3

    Hope to hear from you soon, either that this has been resolved or with some sample log entries for analysis. Have a good rest of your weekend.

    Thread Starter daphnetalbot

    (@daphnetalbot)

    It seems to have stopped so I am unable to get the log info to you. I appreciate the reply and if it pops back up on the radar, I’ll repost. Thanks, Daphne

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