npub13c…4ck4q on Nostr: Podnews's image server traffic today. Normally, I'm doing about 220 image requests ...

Podnews's image server traffic today.

Normally, I'm doing about 220 image requests per minute. Except when the bots come, and grab as many as 9,421. (That's 157 requests a second),

2,840 per minute of those requests bounced through to the main Podnews webserver, for those images to be made fresh for whatever it was that was asking for it. At one point, I was serving more than 330 MB per minute.

It's pointless looking at useragents or IP ranges at this point - this is just another day in the office, and my infrastructure dealt perfectly well with it. But, man, I wish this didn't happen.