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They increased the bandwidth and traffic immediately filled the new capacity. While this could be just a faster web site attracting more users / users were givi
by tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago
They increased the bandwidth and traffic immediately filled the new capacity. While this could be just a faster web site attracting more users / users were giving up due to slow loads before, it could also indicate that they have a lot of automated traffic that will consume whatever resources are available and can be throttled without endangering their mission.
I hope they'll look into it, find a way to identify that traffic, and then (ideally) classify it accordingly and continue to serve it only after all human traffic has been served (i.e. if they run into a bandwidth crunch due to bots, only the bots suffer, and they don't need to upgrade as quickly).
- manquer 7y agoIt could also be they are limited by the capacity, For me Wayback machine is always slow , although my bandwidth is otherwise not been a bottleneck. Perhaps increased capacity is getting utilized by both increased usage and higher performance of their services .
- textfiles 7y agoWe don't save logs of who hits us, but we watch who hits us. It's not bots. But good thinking.
- twicetwice 7y agoHow do you know? Not doubting you, just curious as to how you figure out if a request is from a bot or not.
- textfiles 7y agoWell, obviously, a sneaky bot is a sneaky sneak and acts like a person. But conversely, people act in a way that could be like a bot if anyone casually looked at them - mass downloads, no theme or meaning to content. In general, however, it's all pretty much people. Millions of people a day.