Re: Chinese downloads overloading my website

On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 06:43:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

On a sunny day (Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:12:27 -0500) it happened legg
<legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote in <6lekuihu1heui4th3ogtnqk9ph8msobmj3@4ax.com>:
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A quick response from the ISP says they're blocking the three hosts and 'monitoring the situatio'.
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All the downloading was occuring between certain hours of the day in sequence - first one host between 11 and 12pm. one days rest, then the second host at the same timeon the third day, then the third host on the fourth day.
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Same files 262 times each, 17Gb each.
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Not normal web activity, as I know it.
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RL

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Many sites have a 'I m not a bot' sort of thing you have to go through to get access.

Any idea what's involved - preferably anything that doesn't owe to Google?
ISP bumped up limit for this month as courtesy, after blocking the first three hosts, but a fourth host just gobbled that up.
3rd March
1.82.160.27 Chinanet Shaanxi, China telecom #56 Gaoxin St Beijing 100032
5th March
183.197.52.166 China Mobile Communications
6th March
42.184.167.97 Chinanet Heilongjiang, Heilongjiang Telecom,#178 Zhongshan Rd Haerbin
150040
8th March
106.46.35.206 Chinanet Henan, Henan Telecom
I'd like to limit traffic data volume by any host to <500M,
or <50M in 24hrs. It's all ftp.
Have access to Pldesk, but am unfamiliar with capabilities and clued out how to do much of anything save file transfer.
RL