Kyle BondoJun 23

My server was hit by a bot that keeps downloading every single MP3 file on my server!

So I temporarily shut down the storage bucket to stop the bleeding! $$$

Now, I have to get a CDN in front of the bucket and configure it properly to keep these bots from messing with me.

Damn, the Internet can be downright hostile some days!

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Show threadChadF Jun 23

@gagglepod

Was the @Kolomona building his Dooms Day digital archive for the Zombie Apocalypse?

Show threadKyle BondoJun 23

@ChadF @Kolomona

LMAOOO!! No.

Google calls it "Download APAC" which points to someone scraping or using a bot to target my storage bucket.

I'm going to build a custom domain, point it to CloudFlare, and then re-route traffic through that... or so my plan is at the moment.

Show threadKolomona - Sir Libre ⚡🤘Jun 23

@gagglepod @ChadF

lol I didn't realize that Chad's message was a response in a thread. I thought he was refering to me and my archive of media on my Jellyfin server 🙂

It's probably a misconfigured bot. If I were a scraper I would make my bot do it nicely so you wouldn't block it, but there are vibe coders / script kitties that make bots all the time

Show threadKyle Bondo

@Kolomona @ChadF Yeah. It's been hitting me at 7am and 7pm for 6 days now.

We're at 170 Gb of data at $9.00 of bandwidth costs.

The dark side of public buckets.
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Show threadKolomona - Sir Libre ⚡🤘Jun 23

@gagglepod @ChadF

Holy crap. Is this for your business or Flowgnar?

You may want to look into ipfspodcasting.net

Though that wouldn't stop the abuse problem, it would help with the costs

Show threadKyle BondoJun 23

@Kolomona @ChadF

Yeah -- It's my tiny hosting company, Oncetold (oncetold.com), which hosts Flowgnar.

Maybe it's a CloudFlare upsell tactic! LOL