Not entirely clear to me what is going on, but we’ve seen a large influx in traffic from oversea today. This has lead to high CPU and performance issues.
I’ve put in place a block to what seems to be the source of the traffic, but its not perfect and may cause other issues. If you see/hear of any please let me know here.
lodion@aussie.zone 6 days ago
For some context, CPU usage jumped when the traffic started… and dropped after the block was applied:
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Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 6 days ago
What sort of block if I can ask? AI block or blocking Russia?
lodion@aussie.zone 6 days ago
The unusual traffic all appeared to be coming from one location on the internet, with the same user agent string. Any traffic from that network will now receive a captcha from Cloudflare. I’m not aware of any lemmy instances hosted there, but will keep an eye on things.