CN — China Block / RSS Feed: Discovery COMPLETE + Remediation Scope

SUPERSEDED BY QT-NEE-2026-030 (2026-08-05) — recorded 2026-08-14 by cfo seat. This quote is the origin of the canonical three-stage scope: Stage 1 discovery $295 + Stage 2 remediation $850 + Stage 3 page caching / re-baseline $650 = $1,795. Stage 1 was invoiced and PAID on INV-X-2026-008 ($295, 2026-08-07). QT-NEE-2026-030 carries the unbilled remainder at $1,500 = $850 + $650, with the stage-1 SKU zeroed so it cannot mint a second Stripe session. No price ever moved: $1,795 = $295 collected + $1,500 outstanding. This quote was never sent (sentAt NULL, viewedAt NULL, signedAt NULL, convertedInvoiceIds {}). Archived, not deleted; original notes and lineItems intact below.

--- original note, retained verbatim --- REVISED 2026-07-28 after live read-only investigation of host.communitynewspapers.com. KEY FINDING: there is no China block. CSF CC_DENY = "SG" (Singapore) only; .htaccess has zero deny lines; no ASN/user-agent/RSS filtering exists. Real load driver is datacenter bot traffic: 10,902 /feed hits today, plus 6,935 requests from 4.150.111.85 (Microsoft Azure, UA "NewsNetwork-Syndication/1.0") issuing hundreds of repeat HEAD requests against the same images. Site fell over 3x in 6 days (Jul 22 / 26 / 28, durations 6.3 / 10.8 / 14.8 min, escalating) because PHP-FPM pm.max_children=30 cannot absorb peaks of 1,575 req/min. MySQL fully cleared: Slow_queries=0 over 5.5 days. Full writeup: /root/cn-QT-011-revised-china-rss-2026-07-28.md