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Running XenForo 2.3 on semi-dedicated cPanel hosting. In mid-June, the forum began suffering a mild DDoS. I strongly suspect LLM scrapers. Last month, it ramped up severely to cause two periods of several hours of downtime due to 500 errors. The host confirmed that it was a DDoS targeting the forums' search. So we removed the ability for guests to run a search, did some htaccess tricks to limit guests, and blocked the heaviest hitting IP addresses which were all from China. That...
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