Netlify site: http://murderbridge.netlify.app/
On Sept 8th, starting ~12pm EST the bandwidth usage for my site increased to ~4x the usual amount
This would be expected if the site grew in popularity but the number of unique users stayed constant in the same time period. I also had no changes made to the site for the past 8 - 9 months.
Google analytics had roughly the same findings (with the pageviews also staying the same). At the rate I am consuming bandwidth, I will use up all my bandwidth within a week or two.
I suspected someone was hotlinking my assets or site content, and set up a Netlify edge function to block requests that aren’t from an allow list. So far this hasn’t had much effect.
I paid for a Netlify analytics upgrade, to see if I can tell what exactly is being exploited, but was a bit disappointed to find only generic level metrics that only gave me a marginally better window into when the issues began.
Are there any suggestions on where I can look or try to get to the bottom of this?
