Last Sunday, 6th February, the board I had on my site in a directory called /phpbb had about 7000 hits. I found this worrying, so on Monday evening I renamed the directory - the hits stopped, of course. I put up a note saying I didn't know what was happening, and put this into a directory called /forum for people to find. Today, I put back a new directory called /phpbb and immediately found two "guests" logged on to the board from somewhere called network-tools.com, which seems to have a tool which looks for insecurities in boards and site. I deleted my directory /phpbb again.
Can anyone tell me what is happening here please? My site and my board have been growing in popularity, but I don't have the expertise to do a lot of work with the phpbb, and I don't want to continue with any board, etc., if it constantly requires some sort of work input.
A questionable hit volume?
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Interesting. I understand what Lyrikal_J says - I've changed the location from domain/phpbb to domain/somethingelse - but what's concerning me is these vast numbers of hits, and where they're coming from. My main site runs lots of video, so bandwidth costs are a consideration - if I get lots of what I assume are automated hits, they're going to impact my costs eventually, aren't they?
Other than putting up the numbers, of course, and impacting my costs, these hits seemed not to impair anything. The host's helpline ops took a look and couldn't seem to get far, so I've left it at that, but I'm sad to loose the community I was building up. This is the worst aspect, and at the moment I can't see where to go next.
Other than putting up the numbers, of course, and impacting my costs, these hits seemed not to impair anything. The host's helpline ops took a look and couldn't seem to get far, so I've left it at that, but I'm sad to loose the community I was building up. This is the worst aspect, and at the moment I can't see where to go next.
www.felixstowetv.co.uk/phpBB but the directory phpBB is now not present - I deleted it.
Have a look in the Admin Panel and get the IP addresses of some of these guests and look them up - odds are most of them will be Google/MSN search bots crawling the site to index it
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Now that I understand, Graham. But 7000 hits in less than 40 hours ? and the moment I re-instated the directory "/phpBB" I had 2 virtually instant guests which showed as www.network-tools.com . . .
Network tools is just an IP lookup site that all phpBB installs direct you to to track a user's IP. When you're in the ACP and click an IP it brings you to a network tools IP lookup page with the IP field already filled out. You can then submit that IP and network tools will tell you the origin of the IP. It's not networktools.com that's hitting your site.
Thanks for the help, but it's too complicated for me, guys! I'll just pop on a guestbook and a very basic CGI forum supplied by my hosting service. I do belong to a couple of phpBB based forums which I like very much, and that's what decided me to put one up on my site myself. Doing the installation was no problem, follow the instructions. Upgrading was similarly fine.
But if I'm going to get problems I don't understand, then I'd rather not bother! I'd be happy to pay some amount for someone to provide a forum that just works all the time and that I can monitor and manage - but I'm just a writer, film-maker and publisher, not much else . . .
But if I'm going to get problems I don't understand, then I'd rather not bother! I'd be happy to pay some amount for someone to provide a forum that just works all the time and that I can monitor and manage - but I'm just a writer, film-maker and publisher, not much else . . .
You should not give up, eventually someone will find a solution for this. I got the same problem.
My hosting closed down my forum this morning. Other phpBB sites I know off are being atakked similarly, and the directory name does not seem to do any good, mine is called "foros". Registration is not a solution, they do not register. Ip banning is not working either, they come with different ip's (up to 300 different ips)
They don't do anything, the just lurk around, till your forums goes down or the server crashes, then they start again.
It' seems to be popularity and good google indexing what gets them on your back.
I've seen several posts already about this problem here on phpBB.com but no body seems to be taking it seriously.
is there any way to stop all this thousand of lurkers?
My hosting closed down my forum this morning. Other phpBB sites I know off are being atakked similarly, and the directory name does not seem to do any good, mine is called "foros". Registration is not a solution, they do not register. Ip banning is not working either, they come with different ip's (up to 300 different ips)
They don't do anything, the just lurk around, till your forums goes down or the server crashes, then they start again.
It' seems to be popularity and good google indexing what gets them on your back.
I've seen several posts already about this problem here on phpBB.com but no body seems to be taking it seriously.
is there any way to stop all this thousand of lurkers?
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