[phpgrabcomics-announce] bandwidth problems and actions

[Andres B. <an...@ba...>]

Hi everyone,
in the past months the "original" phpGrabComics server has seen a
unforeseen increase in traffic.

A number of issues may have been causing it - but my estimate is that at
most 1/3 of the traffic is users. The rest is bots.

If you want to read more about it, have a look at the phpgrabcomics
blog: http://phpgrabcomics.org/blog

It's now time for action (which is, limiting network access to
phpgrabcomics).

These are the changes that I'm implementing:
-setting up limits in the connections to the phpgrabcomics server. the
server will not serve any more the resources at the maximum speed
possible. this should help to bore the bots that are connecting to the
phpgrabcomics server.
-banning the users that send too many requests to phpgrabcomics. the
list of ips that I have banned - with immediate effect - is here:
http://phpgrabcomics.org/first_banned_ips

Sorry for the bad news,

	Andres

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Andres Baravalle
http://www.baravalle.it

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