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I have to apologize to China, although if you're Chinese proper, I doubt you'll see this apology unless you're on vacation somewhere else or using a proxy.
I've noticed a steady uptick in traffic to this site, notably this blog, over the past few months:
After some sleuthing, it seems I'm pushing 15-20 GB of traffic to China alone each month! With something like 564 million Chinese on the internet (42% penetration), I guess this shouldn't be surprising. And, yes, it was all legitimate HTTP/HTTPS traffic, mostly to this blog.
As I can't afford to pay for extra bandwith, my only option was to throttle traffic to China (e.g., using this very handy .htaccess method -- for Apache webservers -- and list of Chinese IP addresses).
That seems to have worked:
I feel bad that I have to use such a blunt tool as this blocking maneuver, but I'm not sure what else to do. Please let me know if, for some reason, this impacts you (I cannot imagine how it would).
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