Large APAC Data Traffic
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This plugin is generating a huge amount of traffic to the APAC region. This is costing me $15 a month in egress fees on GCP. Either I need to understand how to tune out this traffic via the plugin configurations, or this plugin is unusable to me.
I can’t for the life of me understand why an SEO plugin would require so much traffic to be sent to APAC every day.
On January 1st alone, nearly 3 gibibytes sent to the APAC region. For a small business website with a target audience in a single state, that is outrageous.
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Basically, I firewalled off the entire world with the exception of USA IP ranges and I was still finding egress traffic to Japan, Asia, Russia, Singapore, etc when analyzing network logs. So that meant all the traffic had to be originating from the server itself. So I started shutting off plugins to find the culprit. This turned out to be it.
GCP charges you for egress traffic which price varies depending on the region.
My machine is located in one of Google’s Salt Lake City datacenters, so I was seeing daily charges for “Network Internet Egress from Salt Lake City to APAC”.I will schedule a plugin reinstall but I am not really sure how that would solve the problem unless a version of your plugin was compromised at one time.
Some of the IPs I found in my flow logs.
94.182.181.178
216.10.251.112
111.221.44.122
82.102.173.71
113.90.176.51
119.45.195.247
45.151.249.80Again, all this traffic stopped as soon as I disabled the plugin.
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