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Why have you not reported it to them or/and police?
by akerro 9y ago
Why have you not reported it to them or/and police?
- Geee 9y agoYou don't need police in environments where you can defend yourself.
- fao_ 9y agoOk, so for them it is no longer a problem, but what about other people? It is their ethical duty to report them to the police, otherwise they were an accessory in the crime (In some countries there are laws to enforce this)
- tokenizerrr 9y agoIf you make a shitty site that can't handle a few concurrent requests this is your problem. It's not a DDoS. Not even a DoS. Just trying to request some pages you make available, and you failing at doing so. Or do you also plan on suing Google once they scrape your site?
- fao_ 9y agoLooks like somebody didn't read the parent. > "scraping" site every 15 minutes with massive ddos Google doesn't scrape every 15 minutes. It was implied that they scraped the site often enough to cause a DDoS.
- tokenizerrr 9y agoLooks like someone has never ran a website with even a slight amount of traffic. A few requests every 15 minutes is nothing and your site should be able to handle it. Additionally, it clearly wasn't a DDoS. Quoting from the parent: > Some swedish equal rights server was "scraping" site every 15 minutes with massive ddos. We put capacha for the server ip only (let them scratch their heads now) and let it be If there is only one server ip, it is by definition not distributed. Just a misuse of the term DDoS.
- thephyber 9y ago> Google doesn't scrape every 15 minutes. Google has a variable timing crawler. Google News crawls in almost realtime, but all Google crawlers back off if the site responds slow. Additionally, Google respects `/robots.txt` (which allows the site owner to define a crawl delay) and uses sitemaps for hints, so it doesn't have to re-crawl every single HTTP object "every 15 minutes".
- DocG 9y agoWe were contacted as outsiders to come in and have a look. We managed to stop site from crashing with configuring but basically the site was bombarded with too many dynamic requests and having no cache it took its toll. Server did not wait for responses, it just sent us bunch of requests all at once.
- tokenizerrr 9y agoAny decent webserver can throttle requests per source ip.
- robalfonso 9y agoYes, agreed though you must also take into account the idea of the "straw that breaks the camels back".
- DocG 9y agoWe gave the info to the client. We were in no position to report it.