To those of you who wondered what happened to my website outage problem, I have come to the conclusion that the virtual hosts I bought from my provider (Gandi.net) simply were insufficient for hosting a MediaWiki system.
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To those of you who wondered what happened to my website outage problem, I have come to the conclusion that the virtual hosts I bought from my provider (Gandi.net) simply were insufficient for hosting a MediaWiki system. And yes, all the LLM crawlers were a problem - but so were the links I posted to the #Fediverse, as they proliferated through the instances. 1000 "GET" commands within the span of a few minutes seemed to have been too much.
I have now upped my hosting plan twice - from "Small" to "Medium" to "Large" - and there haven't been any major outages since then. Even the preview card problem seems to have resolved itself.
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To those of you who wondered what happened to my website outage problem, I have come to the conclusion that the virtual hosts I bought from my provider (Gandi.net) simply were insufficient for hosting a MediaWiki system. And yes, all the LLM crawlers were a problem - but so were the links I posted to the #Fediverse, as they proliferated through the instances. 1000 "GET" commands within the span of a few minutes seemed to have been too much.
I have now upped my hosting plan twice - from "Small" to "Medium" to "Large" - and there haven't been any major outages since then. Even the preview card problem seems to have resolved itself.
@juergen_hubert I'm curious if adding a cache would improve this, since all the Mastodon requests are likely hammering the same URL.
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@juergen_hubert I'm curious if adding a cache would improve this, since all the Mastodon requests are likely hammering the same URL.
I think my hosting provider already has a cache?
At least, I got a bunch of "Varnish Cache" errors.
