On my website, I've shared a few files that could be downloaded and installed by XBMC / Kodi software, i.e addons and a repository to download and install these addons.Now, here's the interesting part, when I delete a certain folder which contains 2 files addons.xml addons.xml.md5 - the server is getting overloaded straight away. even though the folder and its files were never essential part of of the addon itself, that is, users never needed to access that folder or to do anything with the files in it (it was there for testing porpuses).Now, if I replace the original files with empty ones (same file-names but no content) the site runs fine, yet when I delete them - the entire server may crash.it has been like that for over 6 months with that folder.Recently I've uploaded a zip file (that could also be used by Kodi) only for a few days, after deleting that file - the same thing happened.Now I'm stuck, having dummy files scattered all-over my website, what can I do? / how can I prevent Kodi from requesting these files?
Server overload upon deleting files
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