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From: Peter <occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Chinese downloads overloading my website
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:58:04 +0000
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 legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote:

>My ISP has blocked all China IP addresses from accessing the 
>site.

That will work; the bots can get around it by using a VPN, but more or
less all VPN services which will handle heavy data cost money. So VPNs
are used for hacking but not for a DOS attack.