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| Updates | Sep 22, 2015 | Rei |
I've been working on securing ACDB this week.
We serve about 1,000,000 pages everyday, yet how many of those are being served to people ? Maybe 200,000 or as high as 500,000.
But what about the other 500,000 ?
Various kinds of bots routinely drain our bandwidth and system resources. While most are harmless, some are seriously bad dudes up to no good!
- spammers ( posting advertisements )
- scrappers ( downloading pages and images )
- scripters ( cheating at treasure hutning )
- scanners ( looking for vulnerabilities )
While I have to tolerate much of this, and I do ban anything I notice, I felt it was time to implement a system that can automatically detect some forms of abuse and do something about it while it's happening.
Unsophisticated abuse of ACDB will be detected and stopped automatically.
We serve about 1,000,000 pages everyday, yet how many of those are being served to people ? Maybe 200,000 or as high as 500,000.
But what about the other 500,000 ?
Various kinds of bots routinely drain our bandwidth and system resources. While most are harmless, some are seriously bad dudes up to no good!
- spammers ( posting advertisements )
- scrappers ( downloading pages and images )
- scripters ( cheating at treasure hutning )
- scanners ( looking for vulnerabilities )
While I have to tolerate much of this, and I do ban anything I notice, I felt it was time to implement a system that can automatically detect some forms of abuse and do something about it while it's happening.
Unsophisticated abuse of ACDB will be detected and stopped automatically.