Comment on How I accidentally slowed down my nextcloud instance for months
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 7 months agoit’s not a distributed denial of service but a single bot asking the same fucking wordpress page every 100ms is still a denial of service on my poor home server. In one click i was able to ban the whole asian continent without too much effort
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Has it “denied service” to you? I’d be genuinely surprised. Are you on dial-up? I’ve run servers on my home network for “never you mind how long” and have never had a denial of service due to bot traffic.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 7 months ago
Yes, I got lots of lag due to WordPress using all the CPU time to elaborate the same page over and over again.
I could have wasted some days to setup a cache proxy and other stuff but for a website with 10 monthly visitors is overkill, is faster to block everyone else outside the target. If someone is visiting from Russia or China they have 120% a malicious intent in my case, so no need to serve content
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Ahh - I see. That’s why I keep telling people “a raspberry pi is not a server”. :-)
As a self-hoster I would still recommend figuring out how to setup something as simple as any of the available WordPress plugins that do caching though. “Being lazy” and “Self-hosting” will end in tears.