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For several months I notice weird slowdowns on this instance. I'm pretty sure it's not my internet since other instances works fine... Anyone else noticed it? First loading of the front page is especially slow for me. It's about 7 seconds or so. I live quite close to Germany ๐Ÿค”

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[โ€“] milan@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

At least for this time, it appears some child wrote a bad crawling bot, heavily hammering the instance with requests for posts, comments and stuff - and i think they knew as they hide behind a vpn. For now things should be better as i did some short term measures and i am trying to better prevent such actions better.. hoping for the best.

Its people like this who should donate lol.

I kinda lost track on my Anubis deployments, it appears here i only have a useragent blacklist so its time to give it prio for lemmy as well. However i worry whether that is sufficient.

(while things are much healthier again, i acknowledge that at least in the webui, its not as fast as it should be)

[โ€“] Shatur@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thank you a lot for the info! Hope you'll find a solution!

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