Mastodawn

Yesterday my VPS set off a warning, as it was hit by a huge spike in incoming traffic, peaking at 55GB at 2:15pm and lasting for an hour.

Upon investigating, it turns out it was my PeerTube instance that was targeted.

Where did the traffic come from?

meta-externalagent (aka Meta's web crawler which is used to grab content to train its AI system).

I feel a little bit violated thinking my Fediverse promo video was grabbed by it, sigh.

#AIcritic #NoAI

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RootHosts

@_elena that’s frustrating — especially when it spikes traffic like that without warning.

I’m a Linux/Windows system administrator, and this kind of load can be managed. You can limit or block such crawlers and also protect your VPS with anti-DDoS, rate limiting, and traffic filtering.

If you want, I can help you secure and optimize your setup — or we can provide a VPS with built-in protection.