Wordpress LScache Plugin: Why Is LiteSpeed Servers Regularly Contacting My Website
Last Updated on: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:02 Periodically (every couple of days) LiteSpeed Servers are accessing my website. I do run the LiteSpeed plug-in and my shared hosting uses Litespeed web server but I dont see any reason why LiteSpeed is accessing my website. And its a daft URL. Amsterdam, Netherlands visited https://psamathe.net/? 07/05/2020 10:13:15 (20 seconds ago) IP: 206.189.100.139 Hostname: 206.189.100.139 LiteSpeed-Image/2.9.6 Its blocked anyway as its running on Digital Ocean and Digital Ocean host so many hackers that the entire Digital Ocean network is blocked as Im just tired of their continual hacking attempts. But with LiteSpeed, ages ago I did enable CCSS (putting in whitelists for LiteSpeed IPs) but it didnt work properly/well so stopped it. I have never enabled any image optimisation. Just in case you need the info, report number: GBHDRTLO Hi, If you didnt use any of online service like CCSS and image optimization , then I think this request was for page speed score test. Best regards, Does LiteSpeed randomly check web sites as although it happens to run LiteSpeed web server, there is no reason for contact beyond any other web site in the world. So does LiteSpeed do this to all web sites because it checking is a regular thing? Hi, This could also be the notification push/pull. If you turn off notifications , this should no longer happens Best regards, Where is notifications Push/Pull . Cant find it antwhere (never knowingly enabled it). Found Automatically Feed News but its always been off. Hi, Please upgrade v3.0. Best regards, Version 3 was a nightmare. Trashed pretty well all of my settings, kept asking for a seerver key (even though I dont use any cloud stuff, no image optimisation, no CCSS, etc.). Its waiting on your support to have time to run an investigations to whats wrong. Took me some time to sort out the settings to get my site working again. So not keen on upgrading until the issues are sorted. The issue here has been going on since before V3 release. Hi, Apologize for the inconvenience , v3 has some problems intially , but it is stabilizing now if you wish to give it another try. This request are only for following reasons : Score check , Image optimization , CCSS generation , Responsive placeholder generation and notifications. Alternatively , you could simply block that request. RewriteCond % HTTP_USER_AGENT LiteSpeed-Image [NC] RewriteRule . - [F] Best regards, Its not causing a massive issue (Digital Ocean are entirely blocked anyway (they are an ongoing hack nuisance) and you are (largely) running on Digital Ocean so included in their block. I dont have any of the features you listed enabled. I have in the past (CCSS) but that was disabled over 6 months ago. Digital Ocean being moved to blocks nearer the internet now so theyll not be clogging-up logs any more with their hackers (do they actually host anybody other than hackers?) Hi, Well , not sure what you mean about the hacker thing , but DO is a good provider from our point of view Certainly some people may abuse the server , but I assume that happens to all kind of providers, not particularly to DO. Best regards,
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