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kbin.earth network traffic has doubled, causing slowdowns (kbin.earth)
submitted 2 months ago by jwr1@kbin.earth to c/kbinEarth@kbin.earth
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Over the past week, I've seen the network traffic more than double from the usual amount, which has caused major noticeable slowdowns here. The total network bandwidth has gone from ~25GB on May 10th to ~58GB today.

I'm currently investigating the cause of the spike, but have not found anything yet. I can only assume it's from some form of DDOS attack.

In the meantime, I have temporarily doubled our server resources to account for the increased strain, which will hopefully reduce the number of slowdowns everybody's encountering. I'm hoping that sometime in the next few days, I will be able to figure out the root cause of the issue so we can get things back to normal.

Thank you for your patience.

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[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This might interfere with API users.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it's worth looking into pros and cons, though. The scrapers are taking their toll on web UI users as well, so I guess something has to be done.

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago

Right. Maybe protect just the Web UI and not the API. The API can only be used with an API-Key, so the scrapers should not be able to do much with it.