This Server, UGH

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Ban guests!

Guest access has been off for a while now. The issue is that this isn't far off from a DDOS attack - even a bot that gets a login page takes up server resources when it's at a scale of thousands of hits per minute.

As far as I know, we basically self-firewall, so there's nothing outside our box to keep the bots from hitting us even if they're ultimately denied.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Guest access has been off for a while now. The issue is that this isn't far off from a DDOS attack - even a bot that gets a login page takes up server resources when it's at a scale of thousands of hits per minute.

As far as I know, we basically self-firewall, so there's nothing outside our box to keep the bots from hitting us even if they're ultimately denied.

About like me hitting refresh on the boobs thread.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Guest access has been off for a while now. The issue is that this isn't far off from a DDOS attack - even a bot that gets a login page takes up server resources when it's at a scale of thousands of hits per minute.

As far as I know, we basically self-firewall, so there's nothing outside our box to keep the bots from hitting us even if they're ultimately denied.

This. It's not intentional but it's essentially a DDOS attack.

[Nirvana58]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Guest access has been off for a while now. The issue is that this isn't far off from a DDOS attack - even a bot that gets a login page takes up server resources when it's at a scale of thousands of hits per minute.

As far as I know, we basically self-firewall, so there's nothing outside our box to keep the bots from hitting us even if they're ultimately denied.

Are we geofencing to block traffic from the main problem areas?