Got a warning for my blog going over 100GB in bandwidth this month... which sounded incredibly unusual. My blog is text and a couple images and I haven't posted anything to it in ages... like how would that even be possible?
Turns out it's possible when you have crawlers going apeshit on your server. Am I even reading this right? 12,181 with 181 zeros at the end for 'Unknown robot'? This is actually bonkers.
Edit: As Thunraz points out below, there's a footnote that reads "Numbers after + are successful hits on 'robots.txt' files" and not scientific notation.
Edit 2: After doing more digging, the culprit is a post where I shared a few wallpapers for download. The bots have been downloading these wallpapers over and over, using 100GB of bandwidth usage in the first 12 days of November. That's when my account was suspended for exceeding bandwidth (it's an artificial limit I put on there awhile back and forgot about...) that's also why the 'last visit' for all the bots is November 12th.
You can also use crowdsec on your server to stop similar BS. They use a community based blacklist. You choose what you want to block. Check it out.
https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec
I'm going to try and implement crowdsec for all my ProxMox containers over Cloudflare tunnels. Wish me luck and that my wife and kids let me do this without constantly making shot up fore to do.
Good luck and if you need help drop by their discord. They have an active community.
https://discord.gg/crowdsec
Can they help me keep my wife and kids at bay too? That's what I need the most help with 😂
I don't think asking help about domestic issues on the Internet is healthy... However, who knows maybe they can ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
They also have a plugin for opnsense (if you use that)
I used to, but moved on to a full Unifi infrastructure about 2 years ago.
Yeah, then you need to implement it at the webhost level.