Restricting hg.hedgewars.org
Sat, 2025-06-14 22:32 — nemo
We were having a lot of issues with excessive AI bot traffic. This isn't really unique to us, the entire internet has been struggling with this, and it hits small projects particularly hard. We tried range bans at first of the worst offenders (Huawei and TenCent figured prominently) but they simply shifted to residential ranges with the same rate of traffic.
I've added a user called anonhog for read access to the repo.
The password is ilovewatermelons.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Glovemiester
Fair enough
Wohlstand
These bots are also overloaded my site too, just MariaDB produced too much threads, CPU on the host is overloaded and RAM is full, and site doesn't response. I installed Anubis on my site, but I still tweaking it since I need to support legacy and specialized browsers on plain HTTP too, not just HTTPS for all the modern trafic.