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.
Thank you for the heads up. I have seen slow downs since yesterday. Some images come up pretty quick but others take a while. I guess the quick ones are already cached on kbin’s server?
Could this lemmy.ca post be relevant? https://kbin.earth/m/main@lemmy.ca/t/1344235/FYI-a-significant-chunk-of-Chinese-IP-space-has-been
Thank you for your efforts and cloud spending to keep this site running. I hope the cause can be figured out quickly so that you can rest easy.
Do you have a Patreon or buymeacoffee page to help with the costs?
https://kbin.earth/about there are some links at the bottom of this page!
I only have the following: GitHub Sponsors (preferred), Liberapay, and Ko-fi. You can see the info on two pages: https://kbin.earth/about and https://interstellar.jwr.one/contributing/sponsoring/
Thanks for your efforts. Has the time come to put Anubis in front of the site to block LLM scrapers?
This might interfere with API users.
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.
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.
