Huge outbound traffic crashing site!

by jl255
5 replies
Anyone experienced something like this before? Huge outbound traffic and the funniest thing is, it is to amazon servers. It keeps crashing my site. Appreciate any help or advice as server support is equally stumped by such a phenomenon.

Note it's outbound, not inbound.
#crashing #huge #outbound #site #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author tutu8
    Some spider hosted on AWS were crawling your site?
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    • Profile picture of the author CynthiaC
      Who are you hosted with?
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  • Profile picture of the author buysellbrowse
    Check on ahrefs.com bots coming from softlayer.com IPs.
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    • Profile picture of the author Entreventurer
      Originally Posted by buysellbrowse View Post

      Check on ahrefs.com bots coming from softlayer.com IPs.
      I would just temporarily block all traffic from those IPs using iptables.
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  • Profile picture of the author tantykimi
    If you're unable to block all their IPs, try contacting your host and see if they can help you.
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