This specific issue why slrpnk.net is down right now seems unrelated to the bot traffic, but I think once I am able to fix the server setup, I will move it to some kind hybrid where the main bulk of the bot traffic is taken on by a professional VPS instead of my home network. In the last months it was sometimes so bad that I coudn’t even browse normally on my otherwise fully seperated / vlan-ed personal PC as the main fiber gateway seems to have been bogged down by the scraper traffic.
We use a professional VPS, and the bot attacks got so bad that retrolemmy was down multiple times a day for sometimes an hour or more. This script helped so much that we didn’t have any bot related downtime since then; for almost 3 months now. Also the users notice no difference when the site is private, unless they are not logged in. And it goes back public after 5 minutes under the threshold.
The bot traffic has gotten so bad this year. Good luck with the server and bot traffic. I hope you find a solution.
This specific issue why slrpnk.net is down right now seems unrelated to the bot traffic, but I think once I am able to fix the server setup, I will move it to some kind hybrid where the main bulk of the bot traffic is taken on by a professional VPS instead of my home network. In the last months it was sometimes so bad that I coudn’t even browse normally on my otherwise fully seperated / vlan-ed personal PC as the main fiber gateway seems to have been bogged down by the scraper traffic.
We use a professional VPS, and the bot attacks got so bad that retrolemmy was down multiple times a day for sometimes an hour or more. This script helped so much that we didn’t have any bot related downtime since then; for almost 3 months now. Also the users notice no difference when the site is private, unless they are not logged in. And it goes back public after 5 minutes under the threshold.
The bot traffic has gotten so bad this year. Good luck with the server and bot traffic. I hope you find a solution.
Might be helpful yes. I have bookmarked it for now. Thanks.