Website unresponsive: diagnostic steps and blocking the AI crawlers

Posted by physicsgraph on Thursday December 04, 2025 @06:43AM
from the physicsderivationgraph.blogspot.com dept.

https://physicsderivationgraph.blogspot.com/2025/12/website-unresponsive-diagnostic-steps.html

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Re:Website unresponsive: diagnostic steps and blocking the A... by Festro on Thursday December 04, 2025 @06:46AM (#46146519)

Blocking IP ranges is just whack-a-mole though right? Glad you got the site back up but this necessitates a high level of vigilance going forward.

Can a softer throttling approach work? Rate limit the naughty IPs when they go over a threshold, or even increase rate limits as CPU/RAM usage climbs?

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Re:Website unresponsive: diagnostic steps and blocking the A... by cport1 on Monday December 15, 2025 @08:52PM (#46283755)

might want to try something like https://webdecoy.com

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