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Now even my personal instance is infested by these AI crawlers (potato-guy.space)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by potatoguy@potato-guy.space to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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It's impossible, i got this instance to just see lemmy from my own instance, but no, it was slow as hell the whole week, i got new pods, put postgres on a different pod, pictrs on another, etc.

But it was slow as hell. I didn't know what it was until a few hours before now. 500 GETs in a MINUTE by ClaudeBot and GPTBot, wth is this? why? I blocked the user agents, etc, using a blocking extension on NGINX and now it works.

WHY? So google can say that you should eat glass?

Life is now hell, if before at least someone could upload a website, now even that is painfull.

Sorry for the rant.

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[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They are 1 cpu and 1 gb of ram pods, postgres goes to 100% cpu on 500 requests per minute, after i put the NGINX extension, it reduced to at max 10%. On weaker servers, these bots make hell on earth, not the config.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it's hitting postgres it's not hitting the cache. Do you have a caching reverse proxy in front of your web application?

[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't have a cache, but the problem is solved now, i can browse lemmy haha.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The nginx instance you have in front of your app can perform caching and avoid hitting your app. The advantage is that it will improve performance even against the most stealthy of bots, including those that don't even exist yet. The disadvantage is that the AI scum get what they want.

[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, cool. I'm going to look at it!

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

If that doesn't work for you, also look at varnish and squid.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

Load should be near zero for reads.