Suspicious activity on my logs.

[josephfc]

Username: josephfc
Domain: cakehut.co.cc, cakebaker.co.cc
Website: http://cakehut.co.cc, http://cakebaker.co.cc

Hi,
I am managing a small site which uses piwigo photo gallery CMS installed from softaculous.
Recently I happen to notice in my pivigo logs that there is a lot of traffic to my site (more than 85%) from an ip range b/w 119.63.198.74 to 119.63.198.74.130. Can u please check if somebody is trying to do something to my site? Is there any way I can block this range of IP from connecting to my site? I’m using a free hosting plan. Also my site is very slow to load up can these be related? Or is the problem with my cms?

Hope to get this resolved as soon as possible.
Thanking you,
Yours faithful,
Joseph Chandy

 

[descalzo]

IP address: 119.63.198.74
Host name: baiduspider-119-63-198-74.crawl.baidu.jp

You apparently are being spidered by a Chinese search engine.

Do you really want to block them?

Slow loading is usually a combination of slow server (heavy loads) and content-heavy site.

 

[josephfc]

Does this 'Spidering' create any problem for my site?
This IP has been crawling my site for more than 60 days and it makes about 1000 page requests in 24 hrs. Is this normal?
As long as they don't use my site for unethical purpose. I don't mind them.
Any suggestion would be welcome.



Thanking you
Joseph

 

[descalzo]

A quick Google brings up how to block ranges of IP's using your .htaccess file in public_html

order allow,deny
deny from 192.168.
deny from 10.0.0.
allow from all

The above code will block any IP address starting with "192.168." or "10.0.0." from accessing your site.

So, adjust for the range you want to block and see if it works.

robots.txt is another option, but it is only advisory to a spider. They can and will ignore it if they want.

Also, Apache docs

 

[josephfc]

Thank you so much.

I don't want to have uninvited visitors like these o my site. All my users are give site address personally. So I think I will block that particular IP range. But will it start using another ip?. Any way I will give this a try. Thank you for you help. I appreciate it a lot.

With regards,
Joseph