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Advice on how to deal with AI bots/scrapers? (lemmy.librebun.com)

submitted 9 hours ago by sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Long story short, my VPS, which I'm forwarding my servers through Tailscale to, got hammered by thousands of requests per minute from Anthropic's Claude AI. All of which being from different AWS IPs.

The VPS has a 1TB monthly cap, but it's still kinda shitty to have huge spikes like the 13GB in just a couple of minutes today.

How do you deal with something like this?
I'm only really running a caddy reverse proxy on the VPS which forwards my home server's services through Tailscale. "

I'd really like to avoid solutions like Cloudflare, since they f over CGNAT users very frequently and all that. Don't think a WAF would help with this at all(?), but rate limiting on the reverse proxy might work.

(VPS has fail2ban and I'm using /etc/hosts.deny for manual blocking. There's a WIP website on my root domain with robots.txt that should be denying AWS bots as well...)

I'm still learning and would really appreciate any suggestions.

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[–] sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

In my experience, git forges are especially hit hard

Is that why my Forgejo instance has been hit twice like crazy before...
Why can't we have nice things. Thank you!

EDIT: Hopefully Photon doesn't get in their sights as well. Though after using the official lemmy webui for a while, I do really like it a lot.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, Forgejo and Gitea. I think it is partially a problem of insufficient caching on the side of these git forges that makes it especially bad, but in the end that is victim blaming 🫠

Mlmym seems to be the target because it is mostly Javascript free and therefore easier to scrape I think. But the other Lemmy frontends are also not well protected. Lemmy-ui doesn't even allow to easily add a custom robots.txt, you have to manually overwrite it in the reverse-proxy.