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slrpnk.net is down (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/isitdown@infosec.pub
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[–] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

Heyo, ProdigalFrog here (one of the SLRPNK Admins).

The server had been slowing down quite a bit over the past couple days, so I'm guessing it got overwhelmed with bot traffic and crashed. poVoq is investigating what happened, but according to them it's not clear what went wrong, and it's possible it may be a while before it can be brought back online.

@Kris@feddit.org (poVoq's alt) @Five@lemmy.cafe (Five's Alt)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    If you're having issues with bot traffic, we have a trick on RetroLemmy. We use a cron that checks the server load, and when the load is too high it switches the instance into private mode (only logged in users can browse), when load goes back down again it switches to public mode again. Private mode means the bot requests use much fewer resources, but it also means the bots have no content to scrape and they probably run out of links to crawl very quickly.

    https://github.com/DaDosDude/Lemmy-bot-protection

    @CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe @Kris@feddit.org @Five@lemmy.cafe

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