Excessive Internal Server Calls

  • I realized from the statistics of Awstat that huge amount of pages (288.137) have been called from my server itself with the IP address of 50.28.12.50. As a result, my server itself consumed 32 GB of bandwidth for the last month.

    Normally, 288.137 pages are expected to generate much more traffic but fortunately I was using W3 Total Cache plugin which limited the bandwidth usage down to 32 GB.

    I even reviewed the Raw Access Logs and realized that lots of images from my blog are called my server’s own IP address. Below you can even see some sample logs from the Raw Access Log which normally contains hundred and thousands of similar calls.

    50.28.12.50 – – [25/May/2012:08:13:05 -0400] “GET /wp-content/uploads/2011/09/br001182.jpg HTTP/1.1” 200 47109 “-” “PHP/5.3.9”

    50.28.12.50 – – [25/May/2012:08:13:05 -0400] “GET /wp-content/uploads/2012/01/br001299.jpg HTTP/1.1” 200 24014 “-” “PHP/5.3.9”

    50.28.12.50 – – [25/May/2012:08:13:05 -0400] “GET /wp-content/uploads/2012/05/br001349.jpg HTTP/1.1” 200 55596 “-” “PHP/5.3.9”

    50.28.12.50 – – [25/May/2012:08:13:06 -0400] “GET /wp-content/uploads/2011/02/br000915.jpg HTTP/1.1” 200 94694 “-” “PHP/5.3.9”

    50.28.12.50 – – [25/May/2012:08:13:06 -0400] “GET /wp-content/uploads/2011/02/br000999.jpg HTTP/1.1” 200 31324 “-” “PHP/5.3.9”

    What may be the reason of these internal server calls to our images?

    How can I fix this excesssive traffic usage by my server?

    Any comment or advice is highly appreciated

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  • first, use hotlink protection.
    second, use CDN (content delivery network).
    third, …..

    Thread Starter mutludukkan

    (@mutludukkan)

    blacklizt;

    thanks for your reccomendations.

    I have already been using hotlink protection.

    I also have some plans to use CDN as well. However, your proposals are more likely to reduce the effect of huge bandwidth consumption.

    However, it would be much more appreciated to guide me in finding the main reason of the issue.

    reddave

    (@reddave)

    Hello, I am also having this problem! Am interested to know if any solutions/causes were found for it?

    Many thanks in advance!

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