Re:GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of ...
by hinkley on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:58PM
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So, so many bots. 100x might be hyperbole but only just.
We host websites and the bots are super annoying, because even the well-behaved ones throttle requests per domain, which means they just hit all of our customers at once. If our cache architecture were a little more rotten, like I’ve seen on other jobs, then bot-driven evictions would get ugly, instead of just spiking our traffic, increasing our overhead, and making it harder to get clear metrics.
We host websites and the bots are super annoying, because even the well-behaved ones throttle requests per domain, which means they just hit all of our customers at once. If our cache architecture were a little more rotten, like I’ve seen on other jobs, then bot-driven evictions would get ugly, instead of just spiking our traffic, increasing our overhead, and making it harder to get clear metrics.