Pummelled with illegitimate blog requests

[LiquidFractal]

Just wondering if anyone else checking their Error logs has noticed something like 500-1000 requests at a time trying to execute lines like this on their server? I'm getting this on one of my sites:

https://www.mysite.com/notifications/?do=followers&follow_app=blog&follow_id=60&follow_area=entry2121121121212.1

One of the worst culprits resolves to Arizona, variations on p3nlwpweb060.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net.

Pretty sure there's nothing to be done, and there have been no successful attacks - just wondering if anyone has seen this?  These requests come to me from IPs all over the world, like I said often 500-1000 requests over a very short period of time.  Even after I raised the loggable error setting number, this time I got 1538 log pages of requests in 48 hrs.

[ASTRAPI]

Just rate limit them using Nginx !

Problem solved and not only for them but for all aggresive bots

Or if you don't like them just block the user agent of it ....

 

[LiquidFractal]

10 hours ago, ASTRAPI said:

Just rate limit them using Nginx !

Could you explain please?

I'm on a Cpanel/WHM VPS server runniung CentOS 6.9 x64, if that helps any.

[ASTRAPI]

If you are using Nginx web server it is very easy to rate limit bots or block them just Google it

But if you are using Apache web server i can't help sorry