When I go through the Stats I see thousands of download of some individual files. 2k or 3k downloads a day of ONE SINGLE FILE is highly unusual on my website.
After I clicked the number I discovered 90% of the downloads come second after second from just a few particular IPs (180.97.152.8, 180.153.91.186, 180.153.91.176….) But it’s difficult to track down all of them.
Screenshots:
http://goo.gl/N5nfII
http://goo.gl/l88mg8
Is there any way I can block a specific IP or just other apps and websites to download from my server (and let only visitors browsing my website downloading)? I need this badly. Because I guess it’s those “free stock photos” aggregator services (websites and apps) which cause this problem. It may happen when these aggregators buffer the images from my server and they download many of them at once, probably even many times.
Adding captcha or limiting more downloads than 30 for example from the same IP would help a lot. Is it possible to implement a code which would enable such features?
