Greg Egan on Nostr: Looks like my web site will be down for the rest of November, because, err, someone ...
Looks like my web site will be down for the rest of November, because, err, someone decided to burn through my monthly quota in the last 6 hours.
(The entire web site is about 1.2Gb, so this is either a weird malicious bot attack, or some kind of web crawler stuck in a loop.)
*Edit: Thanks to
npub1hkd93449jnh86yxwqfcg0pvvsugsemfvapeajjcu7xdkavraqmksk8rpzu (npub1hkd…rpzu) I just learned that a GIF-heavy page of animations on my site got featured on Hacker News, so ... not malice, just ten times more traffic in a few hours than I usually get in a month.
Published at
2023-11-05 11:53:38Event JSON
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