Hi
I hope someone can help here as I have no idea how to fix this.
Over the past 2 months the visitor to my gallery has been causing massive traffic.
Our host and myself have singled it down to 1 IP number however that number is our hosts server IP!
My host has replied and below is their reply.
Can anyone help or point me in the right direction as if I try to block the IP number it obviously damages my gallery pages.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Here's the latest reply from our host..............
Nothing has been changed / updated on the server's end in the last period. I have checked the website traffic for May and here are the IP addresses with the most hits:
1699859 69.90.161.65
52095 86.180.148.187
46475 78.150.100.113
The first IP is indeed the server IP address and it is hitting the
http://beermatmania.com/gallery/thumbnails.php script. It seems that the thumbnails keep regenerating every day and that is causing the resource usage problem:
69.90.161.65 - - [04/Jun/2019:12:37:06 +0100] "GET /gallery/albums/userpics/10156/thumb_stau84r.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 4888 "
http://beermatmania.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=873" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
69.90.161.65 - - [04/Jun/2019:12:37:06 +0100] "GET /gallery/albums/userpics/10444/thumb_stau86.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 5163 "
http://beermatmania.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=873" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
69.90.161.65 - - [04/Jun/2019:12:37:06 +0100] "GET /gallery/albums/userpics/10302/thumb_stau88f.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 4828 "
http://beermatmania.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=873" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
69.90.161.65 - - [04/Jun/2019:12:37:06 +0100] "GET /gallery/albums/userpics/10302/thumb_stau88r.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 4349 "
http://beermatmania.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=873" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
69.90.161.65 - - [04/Jun/2019:12:37:07 +0100] "GET /gallery/albums/userpics/10610/thumb_stau103r.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 3827 "
http://beermatmania.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=873" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
69.90.161.65 - - [04/Jun/2019:12:37:07 +0100] "GET /gallery/albums/userpics/10622/thumb_stau104f.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 4233 "
http://beermatmania.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=873" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
69.90.161.65 - - [04/Jun/2019:12:37:07 +0100] "GET /gallery/albums/userpics/10677/thumb_stau107.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 5051 "
http://beermatmania.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=873" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
If possible check this case with your developer and see if there is any solution for this problem. In case that there is anything we should adjust on the server's end let us know and we will assist you right away.