- Priority - Medium
- Affecting Server - bookblog.io
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There have lately been periods of unexpected downtime. This is due to a large increase in bots, scrapers, and other spam on the server. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience because of this -- we know it's frustrating! In short: the bots make a massive amount of requests, which overwhelm the server's resources, and lead to downtime until the bad actors are blocked or give up naturally.
We've been doing our best to block bad IPs as they come in and also make our rate limiting across pages more aggressive. It's clear this isn't going to be a suitable long-term solution though, as the IPs just keep changing once they get blocked, so it's only a short term relief.
As a result, we're investigating and planning for better long term solutions. Unfortunately this will take a bit of time to implement, but it is something we're actively working towards in order to provide a better and more reliable solution in the long term.
We apologise again for the inconvenience, and appreciate any patience you can offer as we make progress on our new structure.
25 August 2025:
Last week we made some changes that have had a very positive impact! We're still continuing to work on implementing more solutions in the long-term, but for the short/medium-term this latest change has been very effective! Fingers crossed.
- Date - 21/08/2025 13:37
- Last Updated - 25/08/2025 10:10
