Hi guys,

Server has been quite slow the last couple of days, and it turns out its because the old.lemmy.today user interface was being hammered and scraped by bots. I turned them off now temporarily while i look into this.

In the mean time, enjoy a faster instance, hopefully… :)

Edit: And the user interfaces are back online.

Now everyone is rate limited on their real ip before hitting any of the alternate user interfaces. This means the web server can protect against bots hammering the site.

Currently it looks like its working. Both the default web site and the alternate user interfaces are fast again. Give the alternate ones a try if you are using a web browser to access the site. :)

  • JawnZ@lemmy.today
    2·
    11 days ago

    btw, I just noticed that old.lemmy.world has a Cloudflare captcha check (not sure if it’s only old or their main), I wonder if it’s to deal with the bot scraping?

    You mentioned IP rate limiting but it’s possible that the CF-captcha could help

      • JawnZ@lemmy.today
        1·
        10 days ago

        Probably difficult for me to capture, but I’m saying that WORLD is using the cloudflare captcha, so maybe an option to put on this instance?

        • mrmanager@lemmy.todayOPM
          1·
          10 days ago

          Aha sorry i misunderstood. :)

          I have increased the rate limit from 6 to 10 now, will see if it improves things.

          I dont really want to add cloudflare in front of the instance. Then we are depending on them all of a sudden.

          Leta tune the rate limiting a bit and see if we are happy.