Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November??

Thunraz@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• benagain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Phew, so I’m a dumbass and not reading it right. I wonder how they’ve managed to use 3MB per visit?

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  • arandomthought@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The robots are a problem, but luckily we’re not into the hepamegaquintogilarillions… Yet.

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    • benagain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      12,000 visits, with 181 of those to the robots.txt file makes way, way more sense, albeit, still an abusive number of visits.

      I couldn’t wrap my head around how large the number was and how many visits that would actually entail to reach that number in 25 days. Turns out that would be roughly a quinquinquagintillion visits per nanosecond. Call it a hunch, but I suspect my server might not handle that.

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  • EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The traffic is really suspicious. Have you by any chance a health or heartbeat endpoint which provides continuous output? That would explain why so many hits cause so much traffic.

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    • benagain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s super weird for sure. I’m not sure how the bots have managed to use so much more bandwidth with only 30k more hits than regular traffic, I guess they probably don’t rely on any caching and fetch each page from scratch?

      Still going through my stats, but it doesn’t look like I’ve gotten much traffic via any API endpoint (running WordPress). I had a few wallpapers available for download and it looks like for whatever reason the bots have latched onto those.

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