Forum Moderators: phranque
I’ve tried in the past to find a solution to my problem, but to no avail… And the problem is, as with lots of others, leeching.
You see, I’ve got (a CentOS/Apache server), a wiki site on old computers. Also on the server I’ve got some directories that are open to the public and contain scans of related magazines. Unfortunately, some users just leech the entire archive, and as a result I’ve got a traffic of 20GB, for this month for instance, and still going up.
So the question is self-posing: what can I do to stop those who leech the entire directories? I’ve used .httaccess to block several bots, but of course that’s easy to circumvent. Is there any (maybe PHP/Java based?) directory that would act as a middleman to the archive? Or any other way to limit those who bomb the server with requests? I was thinking maybe a nice PHP (maybe) interface exists, like those web2ftp interfaces, only I have FTP disabled outside my VPN (due to some DoS attacks)...
Any pointers would be greatly, greatly appreciated… And yes, I've looked around here quite a bit, but found not much :(
Regards
Themis
[edited by: phranque at 9:27 am (utc) on Aug. 26, 2008]
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you should probably start here:
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Let's start reading... thanks so much - good to have found you, since this forum is so vastly awesome!
It's just strange that the thread suddenly died so long ago :(
