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Message started by Jazzy on 03/01/16 at 06:21:50

Title: Bandwidth Exceeded
Post by Jazzy on 03/01/16 at 06:21:50

As you would know if you visited the site last night, it was down due to a "509 Bandwidth Exceeded" error. I've never seen this before on this site, but then again I've only been here a year. We were lucky that the month had only 29 days or else it would have been more trouble. That being said, we need to prevent this from happening again if possible. There are a few things that I can think of that may have caused this:

Heavy spam traffic, often this comes from places like China
Too much crawling by search engines: check robots.txt?
Or possibly, we're getting more legitamite traffic these days and actually need more bandwidth.

Whatever the cause, I think admins should look into this to prevent such an issue from preventing access to the site in the future.

Title: Re: Bandwidth Exceeded
Post by ALAKTORN on 03/01/16 at 07:13:32

It’s already happened multiple times in the past.

Title: Re: Bandwidth Exceeded
Post by Jazzy on 03/01/16 at 08:32:11

636E6369766D706C220 wrote:

It’s already happened multiple times in the past.

OK. I hadn't seen this before so I was a bit worried. I guess I feel a bit better knowing that this isn't the first time, but I still think eventually it should get looked into, especially if it becomes more frequent.

Title: Re: Bandwidth Exceeded
Post by AlexPenev on 03/01/16 at 17:29:52

40% of our bandwidth is human. Half of it is web crawlers (and they're American, not Chinese), but they're sort of necessary. Googlebot is actually pretty good, but there are some other unruly crawlers that misbehave and eat too many burgers and our kitchen struggles.

I reduced the size of a dozen common images, which may help a little. Plan B is to ban certain IPs.

Title: Re: Bandwidth Exceeded
Post by Etch on 03/01/16 at 17:32:11

I like this analogy.

http://https://i.imgur.com/d7hCClp.png

Title: Re: Bandwidth Exceeded
Post by MKDSリオンカスタアル on 03/02/16 at 19:28:45

I thought bots were banned? That's why I can't archive pages on web.archive.org.

If it's a legit traffic increase, I blame the porn thread. ;D

Title: Re: Bandwidth Exceeded
Post by AlexPenev on 03/02/16 at 20:18:46

Bots are instructed not to index the forum -- you shouldn't find topics or posts in google -- but there's no guarantee that they will honour those instructions. They index the rest of the site, such as rankings and timesheets.

Title: Re: Bandwidth Exceeded
Post by Yoshistar™ on 03/03/16 at 03:42:30

5A73797873557765627764160 wrote:

If it's a legit traffic increase, I blame the porn thread. ;D

inb4 BSMKDS is the one to blame ;D

Title: Re: Bandwidth Exceeded
Post by Mario86 on 03/06/16 at 09:04:53

The thread is mine, sorry