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He's complaining that Google is sending 100 requests per hour to his site (i.e. one request every 36 seconds). That's hardly a DOS attack. I doubt if anyone wo
by jonas21 8y ago
He's complaining that Google is sending 100 requests per hour to his site (i.e. one request every 36 seconds).
That's hardly a DOS attack. I doubt if anyone would even notice, except that he has his server set up to alert on every 404. Sure sounds like paranoia to me.
- falcolas 8y agoNo, he's complaining that they're generating 100 alerts per hour. And that Google crawlers consume over 25% of his total available resources. That's potentially a lot of money wasted on nothing.
- jonas21 8y agoThe reason it's generating 100 alerts per hour is that his server alerts on every request to a "bad" (non-existent?) URL: > My blog logs an alert when someone accesses a bad URL. The reason for the alert: a series of bad URL requests is often an indicator of an attack, or a precursor to an attack. And he doesn't say it's using 25% of his available resources -- he says 25% of visits to his blog are from Googlebot. Since he doesn't mention what his total visits are, we have no way of knowing how much money is wasted, but I'd be willing to bet the amount is pretty close to $0.00.