One day my site traffic spiked — bounce rates shot up, charts went wild, and most of the “visitors” were hitting only pagination pages. At first, I thought: DDoS? Clickers? Real users from China?
After digging deeper, I realized it was most likely a parser bot scraping my content. The solution? A crash course in .htaccess, IP ranges, and blocking entire countries just to keep my site breathing.
It’s a story about sudden traffic bursts, false alarms, and the messy reality of defending a small independent site.
Read the full breakdown here: Someone is parsing my website from China, and then I’ve blocked them via htaccess file
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