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It's impossible, i got this instance to just see lemmy from my own instance, but no, it was slow as hell the whole week, i got new pods, put postgres on a different pod, pictrs on another, etc.

But it was slow as hell. I didn't know what it was until a few hours before now. 500 GETs in a MINUTE by ClaudeBot and GPTBot, wth is this? why? I blocked the user agents, etc, using a blocking extension on NGINX and now it works.

WHY? So google can say that you should eat glass?

Life is now hell, if before at least someone could upload a website, now even that is painfull.

Sorry for the rant.

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[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don't have a cache, but the problem is solved now, i can browse lemmy haha.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The nginx instance you have in front of your app can perform caching and avoid hitting your app. The advantage is that it will improve performance even against the most stealthy of bots, including those that don't even exist yet. The disadvantage is that the AI scum get what they want.

[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, cool. I'm going to look at it!

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

If that doesn't work for you, also look at varnish and squid.