Why and How You Should Stop the ChatGPT and Bytedance Bots Crawling Your Pages?
Recently, I have seen my servers overloaded (High CPU Usage) and I looked into the apache logs and I see the access logs from ChatGPT Bot aka GPTBot/1.0 and …
Category: apache server
Password Protect or IP Restriction on WordPress wp-admin Folder (htaccess and htpasswd)
wp-admin folder is the most important folder in a wordpress installation. It mainly contains the code for the Dashboard. However, there is an important file admin-ajax.php which is also …
Low PHP-FPM max_children value causes Website Slow to Response + CloudFlare 524 Error
The cloudflare 524 error means that a TCP/IP connection has been established to your server but the server fails to response with HTTP code/status within a time frame, usually …
Bash Command to Find Out the IPs that Hit Your Server
My servers have been recently hit by a few spam bots whether they are malicious or not. The spamer causes high CPU spikes and I have to ban those …
How to Prevent Script Running from Browsers?
Sometimes, you write scripts that are invoked on command line, which can be included in crontab jobs. But you don’t want these visible in web browsers. You could move …
