#indieweb 2025-08-14

2025-08-14 UTC
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[artlung] [mattl]++ yes thanks for spearheading!
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Loqi [mattl] has 13 karma in this channel over the last year (103 in all channels)
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paperbritt Say your website's bandwidth was being taken up by robots, say they ramped up over the last week to the point where yesterday they hit 7000 page views, had no useful user agent to block, used multiple ip addresses from multiple countries and just kept going even when using wordfence to block IP ranges.
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paperbritt What would you do?
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paperbritt Would you start temporarily blocking the 6+ countries those bots came from using .htaccess? I'm worried about impacting the tiny amount of legitimate international traffic I get.
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IWDiscord <p​aperbritt>
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IWDiscord <p​aperbritt>
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paperbritt It feels like a DDoS on my site but... Why would anyone bother?
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.straydogstrut Hello, not sure if this is the best place to ask - and I’m on my mobile so could be poor connection - but the Indie Web site looks broken. All styling has been removed. If I try to visit some of the links I get a ‘cannot find database’ error. Is it just me?
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Loqi friendly reminder paperbritt, .straydogstrut, would you mind moving this more technical conversation (DDoS, database) to #indieweb-dev? thanks!
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capjamesg _straydogstrut[d] It looks like the wiki is having some issues today.
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capjamesg Thank you for the report. It seems like it's been going on for a few hours now.
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capjamesg I tagged aaronpk to take a look.
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[snarfed] paperbritt I'd sign up for CloudFlare
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[snarfed] their free tier is pretty generous
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doesnm is silent
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[snarfed] (also 7k page views is pretty modest, if that uses up your bandwidth quota, your hosting plan sounds...maybe unreasonably limited)
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paperbritt It was more a limit that was hit due to multiple page views a second, 7k is just what got through around the 503s caused by overloading. Like they keep hitting it multiple times a second until it gets temporarily overloaded.
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paperbritt I have unlimited bandwidth within reason (their wording) but if the database can't fulfill the requests it's the same sort of problem. Sorry, not perfect wording, honestly I miss static sites and will return there once I get my shop off WooCommerce.
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