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Title: Forbidden - not the Planet
Post by: RET on October 20, 2025, 08:41:22 PM

Did you try and log in and get a big splash that said you were forbidden?

Blame Generative AI. God I hate that shit.

Long story short, a web-scraper somehow consumed most of the 60GB of bandwidth/month allocated to this site reading this forum, which contains only a tiny fraction of that volume.

I have implemented a new blocker to stop them, as well as upped the bandwidth limit on this site to 80GB. I'll keep an eye on it over the next few days to ensure it's working as expected.

It is pretty easy to spot the culprit:
(https://i.imgur.com/gyykxew.jpeg)

Title: Re: Forbidden - not the Planet
Post by: Gman on October 21, 2025, 07:22:49 AM

cloud flare works wonders

Title: Re: Forbidden - not the Planet
Post by: ardiesse on October 21, 2025, 04:05:17 PM

Yep. It was close to the end of the month, and the "users active" count is usually above 2000, so I wondered if it was LLM bots scraping content.

Rob

"See androids fighting Brad and Janet; Anne Francis stars in . . ."

Title: Re: Forbidden - not the Planet
Post by: blacky on October 21, 2025, 06:28:22 PM

you guys are speaking some foreign language I am sure of it .........

Title: Re: Forbidden - not the Planet
Post by: Errol62 on October 22, 2025, 08:41:11 AM

Thanks for sorting it out Richard

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