Spam bots(?) put down even more but still crawling

So these spam bots have continued to harass the Decknique server with no negative effect on the performance for users, or even on my wallet (if I let all the requests in, I would have to pay extra bandwidth charges).

I’m resetting my spam bot counter now. Within a bit under a month, the stats are:

Direct requests for videos: 1,886,989
IP addresses making these requests: 11,350
Number of distinct videos being requested: 87

I would’ve let it keep going but I was surprised there seemed to be no end in sight. I was trying to see if I could get more information about how this was happening.

But anyways, I figured out how to stop the bots from making repeated requests. So I’m resetting these counters and it should only increase very slowly from now on.

PS Can anybody in China (or otherwise) access the website http://173la.cn/u/egao/ and see anything meaningful? Like links to Decknique videos or something?

To be fair, I’m not 100% they’re bots, only 99% sure.

While writing this, I checked and indeed DN’s still getting these requests… but I’m pretty sure it’s going to be a lot less than before. It will still have no effect on Decknique’s performance.