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Instance having connection issues? (self.meta)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/meta
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Today is the first day in a while I've been able to access this instance. Otherwise it either failed to load completely or took minutes to load each page.

Is this just a brief reprieve before it happens again, or was there something going on that was fixed? Or was something weird happening on my end?

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[–] 5 points 1 week ago* (8 children)

The last few days we were being attacked aggressively by bot scrapers.

I've made a lot of improvements to Anubis to catch them, as well as upgrading the VPS plan to a higher tier. Hopefully this has resolved the issues.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Oh that sucks thanks for working to fix it! Seems to be much better as of right now.

    Crazy that just scraping causes such issues.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    We were getting between 10-20,000 hits every 10 minutes. Suffice to say the site isn't up to withstanding that many active 'users'. And every time I tried to block one avenue, they would change it up within 5 minutes so it could get through again.

    Please let me know if you encounter any issues going forward though.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (5 children)

    Unfortunately it pretty much immediately went down again, and this is the first time I've been able to reconnect.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    Odd, I've been using it fine all day. I'll check the logs later and see if anything is up, but that might be something on your end possibly. Was it loading at all? Were you using the site or an app?

    Edit:

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    CPU usage has remained low, so no bots or anything have been hitting.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

    Hmm not sure what's wrong then. It's not timing out but like 3/4 of the time it just never loads the page.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Has it continued to happen or are things okay for you now?

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