Post #1138895
2026-01-08 09:28 UTC
@kfitz@hcommons.social getting hammered here for months. Old backyard hosted forum on a landline where people talked a little about AI for _a game_ *YEARS AGO*. Sent HTTP 503 for ~4 weeks. Now banning everything that does not accept a cookie. Sucks, I know, but works for most REAL people. They do not care. It is even getting worse. All requests are from unique IPs so the usual throttling does not work. I don't know what to do any more. Very close to giving up and shutting down. Internet seems to be over.
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@silverwizard@convenient.email 2026-01-08 14:24
@bekopharm @kfitz I started with a simple fail2ban rule which caught the worst offenders, I've also gotten pretty good at letting things hit search boxes and blocking failures. I've also simply banned Alibaba Cloud where a bunch of the requests have come from. I've also put a bunch of work into making sure my error pages are light weight so I can manage to make most of the requests hit 503 and have minimal load costs, and then let normal users browse. My only regret is making a signon wall on my RPG wikis - but seems to be a necessary evil.