Starting one month ago, my Data In and Data Out has suddenly increased

Question

Hello, about one month ago, the Data In and Data Out (bandwith) of my app has increased unexpectedly and exponentially. See this:

Nothing has changed in the app (it's a WordPress app running on Windows). I'm just wondering if my site is getting a brute-force attack or something?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi R J,

Most likely your site is just being crawled by robots. You could set up robots.txt to stop crawlers from looking into your site and minimize requests:

A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page out of Google. To keep a web page out of Google, block indexing with noindex or password-protect the page.

Cited from https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro

If you want further analysis, you can check your web server's access log or open a ticket with Azure Support:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/create-ticket

(If you are using Apache, see access log in var/log/apache2/access.log):

https://www.sumologic.com/blog/apache-access-log/

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