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melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago nah its not down.. maybe you use a VPN.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago Comment on Is this a good first homeserver?
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago nah its not down.. maybe you use a VPN.
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I do. Do you block all VPNs? Or is it just rate limiting?
I block some misbehaving data centers. Which are often also used by VPN providers. So it's more collateral damage.
No I fully block some data centers not just rate limit.
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Unfortunate but understandable. I believe there are public lists of the IPs of major VPN providers if you wanted to make an exception, but as VPNs are sometimes used for scraping too, I can see why you might not want that.
Yea so the same server and IP addresses VPN provider use (which are again just cloud providers) are also used for other purposes mainly by scrapers and DDos attacks indeed. Too bad all those cloud providers do not act accordingly in the past 5 years. Since its getting worse and worse. With the increase of datacenters and centralization, I consider it a duty of these companies to take action to stop these scammers, spammers, scrapers, and attackers.
However, that is often not the case. Now I must say, I created Angie Guardian myself (alternative to Anubis). So hopefully soon I can slowly open some of ASN bans. And see how it goes.