my site under attack!

a lot of bots attacking my site trying to eat my bandwidth.. what to do? server administrator said to block IPs but they change that every 5 minutes and I am not sure what to do... help!! please

 

How do you know? can you explain please so that we can check ours.. thanks

 

I had that problem but only with google bots. My bandwidth was completely done after 1 day. But in my case, banning google helped..

 

my traffic incrased from 800 mb per day to 5 gb per day... and they mainly watch the first page, which was never done before

 

shut down the site for one hour and then see if they still there.

 

When you say 'bots' do you mean spam bots or search engine bots? Is this happening 24/7 or just at certain hours of the day?

 

you can simply ban those few IP classes if they are "evil" bots. Just make sure you don't ban the crawlers from the SEs

 

I see..seems to be a robot..

 

this happened to me once, but it wasn't an attack - it was a runaway PHP script that looped into infinity! It crashed the server every half hour for days...Make sure this isnt the case, instead.

 

Probably a DDOS attack. Does your host have a firewall (software and hardware) for your server?

 

so what happen?

 

Make a bot trap. You should be able to exhaust all IPs, proxies and whatever in a couple hours.

 

now I closed my site... I don't know what to do...

 

It sounds like someone has set up a bot to attack your site. Hopefully closing down your site for awhile will help.

 

WARNING! WARNING! Aliens are attacking!!! LOL

Put google adsense on there, that will pay off for the extra bandwidth upgrade you need!

 

they are flooding your unstable database.

 

Are the bots just coming to your site and eating up badnwidth by pages? or are they spamming you by email, doing spam submission and all that as well?

 

you can blacklist the bots ips

 

if it gets too bad, you should find an anti-ddos service.