Thanks to a particularly annoying botnet, everyone’s favorite anime cat girl firewall is now helping protect piefed.ca & lemmy.ca from bots and scrapers.
This is requests per second and these are all thousands of scrapers on residential IPs hammering us:
They’d increase their usage until the site started struggling, then move on. I banned their user agents, but have no interest in a cat & mouse game. Anubis should hopefully keep things running much smoother for everyone.
Let me know if you have any trouble!
It’ll be nice to compare the next week’s network traffic to the last one’s and (presumably) see the spikes disappear.
There’s definitely a noticeable drop.
I’m surprised our backend traffic so flat, but I’m assuming it’s mostly federation