Posted on 12/02/2021 7:17:06 AM PST by nancyvideo
Humblegunner for one.
Pipe down, Karen.
Karen Bumblegummer. The most ridiculous little troll around! Hates any competition for her blogs. LOLZ
Are you sure it is a bot?
Is the site wordpress based? Does the traffic show up in wordpress stats?
I have been through something similar, and still get it every so often. For a day or two, I get so many queries it hits the database hourly limit and stops all further queries, until the hour turns over. There is a window of accessibility, and then it happens again for the next hour.
When you look into it, they tell you it is most often a new plugin, and to uninstall all plugins. But that doesn’t work for me.
They will have you install the plugin query monitor, to see what page is producing the queries, but that doesn’t work for me either.
At the end of the day, I have just accepted it will happen. Some think it may be the host backing things up somehow. Since I deal with a lot of intelligence stuff, I have wondered if an intel agency is scraping the site every month or so, pulling everything. It seems to not be malicious, as they don’t do it constantly. Just a day or so, and then it stops for a month.
Thanks - I’ll try that
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