Web-server – How to block hacking attempts targeting phpMyAdmin

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My website gets thousands of hits daily from different IPs trying to access:

/php-myadmin/
/myadmin/
/mysql/

…and thousands of other variations. None of these directories exist, I don't even have phpmyadmin on my server.

I don't think any of these attempts have been successful, however they must be taking their toll on the server's resources and wasting bandwidth, so I would like to stop them if possible. I've blocked a handful of these IPs but they keep coming back with fresh IPs, is there any way I can prevent this more permanently?

Best Answer

Don't worry about it. Serving a 404 is a tiny, tiny, tiny amount of work for a web server to do. You could probably serve ten 404's a second using a 486. The bandwidth per 404 is negligible; a tiny GET request and a tiny 404 response.

Seriously; don't worry about it. This is just part and parcel of running a server on the internet.

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