I've noticed over the past few days that we've had a lot more IP addresses visiting the site than normal. And I mean hundreds more showing in "Who's Online".
After I did some traces it appears they all come from your-server.de. This is the standard default reverse-DNS entry for servers rented from Hetzner, so that domain name isn't anything to do with the scraping.
Basically, It's the person renting that server that we need to identify. There's just too many IP's to blacklist and they're across too many different IP ranges to pin them down.
And even if I blocked them (which would be a long job) they'd probably just switch to different IP's. I can't block all hetzner servers either cos I'd be blocking legitimate traffic as well.
The numbers at present don't cause any problem other than wasting our bandwidth, but it's something that I'll need to monitor because I don't want it escalating into something like a DDoS attack.
If you didn't understand any of that, let me summarise:
Somebody has an unusual interest in this site. And when this sort of thing happens their intentions are never good.
@Tym.......time to Lock'n'Load!