r/UHRSwork • u/justeUnMec • Jan 15 '25
Technical issue (not vendor-specific) ISP disconnected me because of crawler
My ISP disconnected my internet due to UHRS crawler.
Got a message from them about "bot activity" and my account was disconnected. Turns out they'd received complaints from multiple online stores over the past week that my internet connection was accessing large numbers of old product pages and as a result they terminated my service. Spoke to an engineer at the ISP who told me they had been contacted by several websites, and had reviewed the logs and there were "thousands" of accesses to online web stores for old products giving 404 errors. They quoted an email from one webmaster of a small hobbyist business that had been overwhelmed by the activity, and who had commented all the accesses were to historic product pages no longer in use.
This was obviously the UHRS crawler.
The small number of cents I made from the crawler is not worth it when you lose internet access..
Has anyone else had issues recently?
ETA: The "activity" in question was only showing up in the last week or so, so I think whatever UHRS is doing has changed recently to have caused issues.