The Texas server begins with 74? Or 47? If it begins with 47, it's part of the Alibaba cloud, so blocking it shouldn't cause undue problems. They hit us so hard the site was timing out at times. I wonder if the huge networks that are load balanced realize what's going on? Or if they even care. For us little guys, it's a huge problem.
Here's my .htaccess file (part of it).
# Block via IP Address
#Allow from 127.0.0.1
#Deny from 212.235.15.153
#Deny from 156.59.198.136
#Deny from 212.29.233
#Deny from 111.225.149
#Deny from 47.76.35.19
#Deny from 217.113.194
#Deny from 101.44
Deny from 47.76
Deny from 47.89
Deny from 47.74
The commented out ones were previous abusers. If they come back, I uncomment them.
