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Moscow Mule replied

11 December 2009, 18:01
Originally posted by Cliphead View Post

Add Google Analytics to your site, much more useful than the standard stats.

Is your site hosted on a shared server? Do you have shell access?

It's my own server so I might just do that....
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Moscow Mule replied

11 December 2009, 18:00
Originally posted by weboo View Post

Could be crawlers looking at your website for content!? lookup robots.txt and it will add some explanation. Add the file to your website to stop them

It was from a standard ISP somewhere in France - and was after all sorts of PHP files etc so I don't think it was a crawler.
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Cliphead replied

11 December 2009, 17:17
Add Google Analytics to your site, much more useful than the standard stats.

Is your site hosted on a shared server? Do you have shell access?
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weboo replied

11 December 2009, 17:14
Could be crawlers looking at your website for content!? lookup robots.txt and it will add some explanation. Add the file to your website to stop them
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NickFitz replied

11 December 2009, 14:13
Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post

I might drop them a line once I've finished everything else on the list for today...

Ping flood their server, that should wake them up
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Moscow Mule replied

11 December 2009, 13:50
TVM.

I might drop them a line once I've finished everything else on the list for today...
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administrator replied

11 December 2009, 13:46
Prob just a server somewhere has been hacked and an automated bot has picked your IP and is attempting known exploits to try and infect more machines. You can ignore or if you feel like doing a good deed for the day then contact the server hosts and let them know.
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Moscow Mule started a topic Webserver getting hit - Should I be worried?

11 December 2009, 13:38
Webserver getting hit - Should I be worried?

I'm pretty new to this lark, and my webserver currently only has myco website on it (it's used for some other stuff which isn't available to the outside world).

I was a little surprised to see 32000+ hits from a random server in france attempting to get lots of PHP & other docs from the site - which obviously don't exist.

Is this somebody trying to have a crack, failling, and therefore nothing to worry about, or should I report it to the ISP of the naughty IP?
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