The plugin attack our website, bad for SEO

  • Resolved nooonooo

    (@nooonooo)


    10 months, 1 week ago

    This plugin kept attacking our website and caused our website CPU usage to reach 100%, which resulted in a drop of thousands of daily visitors to almost zero and was penalized by Google. When we pointed out the problem to them, they stopped the attack and then switched to a different IP address to continue the attack. When we warned them again, they did not respond again. We spent $199 to buy a piece of junk hacker plugin.

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  • I am facing similar issue with one of my client website. How did you trace that this plugin is utilizing 100% of the CPU?

    • This reply was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by j4jameel.
    Plugin Author edo888

    (@edo888)

    Hi,

    Your statements are false. We do not attack websites.

    We provide website translation services via our translation proxy technology.

    I think you simply have problems interpreting what you see.

    Thanks! ??

    Thread Starter nooonooo

    (@nooonooo)

    @j4jameel Cloudflare detected that the Gtranslate proxy was attacking our site at a rate of dozens of hits per second.

    Thread Starter nooonooo

    (@nooonooo)

    @j4jameel When I reported this to them, they stopped attacking and refused to admit it was their fault. After a few hours, they switched IPs and continued their attacks. Then, they never responded to me again.

    Plugin Author edo888

    (@edo888)

    Imagine that you are in a foreign country and you have a translator with your to help you communicate with others.

    When someone says you something, whether it be something good or an “attack” in a form of an insult, your translator passes the meaning to you. It would be naive to accuses your translator for doing his job.

    Same with GTranslate. It passes all the requests to the translated version to your server to know your response to deliver the translated version to the visitor.

    It is good that you know about Cloudflare and have it. In the same example Cloudflare will be your bodyguard.

    You will have a bodyguard and a translator. So your bodyguard will do some filtering before the “attack” reaches you.

    Hope this makes sense now.

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