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Ha! One of my old staging subdomains had an old Digital Ocean address left in it for a bit while we migrated some servers, and Google indexed some random ebook
by tinix 8y ago
Ha!
One of my old staging subdomains had an old Digital Ocean address left in it for a bit while we migrated some servers, and Google indexed some random ebook pirate site too, here[1] is a snap of the logs for anyone who is curious. Once I updated the DNS, Googlebot started to blow us up.
[1] https://node.zeneval.com/snaps/a79fe276b688da7b589ce539c9a4a062.png https://node.zeneval.com/snaps/a79fe276b688da7b589ce539c9a4a...
I never would have even noticed, had it not been for Googlebot indexing the crap out of us, and causing 10s of thousands of sessions to be created in a short time which threw our Munin graphs off the charts.
The site we were staging ran fine, redis handled it without breaking a sweat, but we're not a public facing service, so I just straight up blocked Google Bot w/ an nginx rule.