Anyone seen this before?

[Davyc]

As I am contemplating using the CIC from IPS and there is a limit on the number of visitors allowed within a period of time, I was concerned about this (see below) which is currently on a self-hosted forum.  If this is something that can happen regularly then the number of visitors could be eaten up quite quickly.  The IP address is the same for each separate visitor (hailing from France) and it has me wondering if this kind of issue could rip up my visitor quota.

 

[Meddysong]

What you're seeing there could well be a robot indexing your site. If that's the case, it won't be around for long.

IC take an average of your visitors over, I believe, a 24-hour period, so even with a hot spell like this you should be absolutely fine. It's not the case that there's an alarm at IPS Towers which will notify them that you've got a bunch of users on your site at the moment and need to be bumped to a new tier, don't worry 🙂

[Mark H]

Yes, that IP range is from a Host in France, OVH.

It doesn't appear to be a legitimate search engine, however, so if I were you I'd simply block that IP Range on your server.

In CIDR format that range would be: 164.132.48.0/24

[Davyc]

Thanks for that info - I must admit I've never seen this before where multiple ip's from the same address appear.  I'll bear this in mind when I move to CIC.

[USCJ Digital]

Actually, I see this frequently with Invision Cloud community site:

I have removed the IP addresses, but this is "me" logging in from two accounts.

Two of the "guests" are also "USCJ Digital," captured by Invision while logging in and before heading to the "Online User List." I also see this when people are registering to join for the community or have  recently logged out. I can see anywhere from 2-3 instances of a specific user in the 15-30 minutes while logging in/registering and also when logging out.