Ask HN: AI companies' bots are making my server slow, what do you do?

3 pointsaabbcc12411mo ago4 comments

Do you reject them or put them in lower priority?

So far the AI bots are honest on the user agent. But my low budget server is significantly slower than it should be when I'm using it as a human.

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mmarian1mo ago

Put it behind Cloudflare and try out the various firewall rules. Wrote this blog post covering some examples of rules and trade-offs https://developerwithacat.com/blog/202603/block-bots-scrapin...

Also post in r/Cloudflare subreddit. People are very helpful.

JoshTriplett1mo ago

https://anubis.techaro.lol/ or https://github.com/dgl/haphash/ .

aabbcc1241OP1mo ago

I saw them used in the linux community, maybe it's finally my time to use/need this kind of tools.

(At the same time, I'm happy if my site can help the AIs / its users, but I prefer it not significantly slow down my own usage. There should be a balanced combination)

wangxin1991mo ago

good

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