Since august my traffic from china has skyrocketed.

How can I block it completely?

I don't recall exactly when I migrated to 5.x, but this china traffic spike may coincide with the change? (I could be wrong)

As we've covered in your ticket, we already block China and international automated traffic on our platform. What you're seeing there is residual traffic from VPNs and other means which Google Analytics is classifying as Chinese. Unfortunately, there are no other means to block this.

15 minutes ago, Jim M said:

As we've covered in your ticket, we already block China and international automated traffic on our platform. What you're seeing there is residual traffic from VPNs and other means which Google Analytics is classifying as Chinese. Unfortunately, there are no other means to block this.

Jim, sorry. I don't recall a ticket on this. Where do I find it?

Curious why it materialized suddenly in Aug? Google changes how it measured?

I've also recently seeing more system errors. Any feedback?

You would interact over email with our ticket system.

Jim, no such ticket. (that I can see) Regardless... the china issue is resolved.

Whats up with the system log spike?

1 minute ago, peter gariepy said:

Whats up with the system log spike?

You would need to review your system logs to find out. If you need assistance in resolving, please let us know or submit a ticket.

1 minute ago, Jim M said:

You would need to review your system logs to find out. If you need assistance in resolving, please let us know or submit a ticket.

Yes please.

Please review my system logs. forums.aaca.org

Looks like guests are attempting to download gallery images which no longer exist.

Or maybe never existed? We've had a lot of AI scrapers requesting nonsense URLs on our site.

It may well be that they never existed at all, yes

I have the same problem - my traffic exploded over the past 7 days brought my server to the limit. Yesturday I changed to Cloudflare and now I am facing other problems - can not log into the Admin section properly anymore. Maybe this is the topic to also discuss this.

48 minutes ago, hpcrazy said:

I have the same problem - my traffic exploded over the past 7 days brought my server to the limit. Yesturday I changed to Cloudflare and now I am facing other problems - can not log into the Admin section properly anymore. Maybe this is the topic to also discuss this.

If you are having issue with getting to your admin CP, I would advise on reverting your cloudflare changes, as you're clearly blocking your own access there.

9 minutes ago, Marc said:

If you are having issue with getting to your admin CP, I would advise on reverting your cloudflare changes, as you're clearly blocking your own access there.

I can not reverse it due to the heary traffic I am having without protection. I have similar problems like Peter. Maybe the issue can be solved with the proper Cloudflare settings. Therefore I open up an other topic.

Disable temporarily Cloudflare to access your ACP, enable the setting to trust the IP address provided by a proxy, and then re-enable Cloudflare. You should be able to login after changing that setting.

1 hour ago, teraßyte said:

Disable temporarily Cloudflare to access your ACP, enable the setting to trust the IP address provided by a proxy, and then re-enable Cloudflare. You should be able to login after changing that setting.

Thats what I found out - and it works all fine now 😊