[BlueOnyx:10176] Re: Yup - there's an app for that!

[Alan Kline]

Well, I tried this--copied and pasted Stephanie's code into my 
site1.include, making the necessary changes, and restarted httpd. I 
spent 2 bucks on that app so I could check, and it still works! My log 
doesn't show a referrer--wonder if the app has been modified?

ak

On 4/18/2012 1:01 PM, Stephanie Sullivan wrote:
 > I had a recent round of "fun" on one site. A virtual server was
 > occasionally getting overloaded for a bit, then going back to the
 > normal light load. I've seen this happen for lots of reasons, but
 > mostly when wordpress has too many or poorly designed plug-ins
 > installed and it runs over the 32MB memory limit I've got.
 >
 > Enough of the good old days, there's a new app in town. SiteSucker!
 > http://itunes.apple.com/app/sitesucker/id442168834?mt=12
 >
 > This little baby was sucking down a large framework based cms site as 
 > fast as it could hit it. Load factor was hovering up around 10 for
 > hours. It apparently runs in some kind of multi-threaded mode where
 > it's punching multiple requests as fast as it can. Just plain rude.
 >
> SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent ^SiteSucker.* goaway
> <Location/home/.sites/xx/sitexx/web>
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> Deny from env=goaway
> </Location>