Ask HN: AI companies' bots are making my server slow, what do you do?

Do you reject them or put them in lower priority?

So far the AI bots are honest on the user agent. But my low budget server is significantly slower than it should be when I'm using it as a human.

5 comments

[ 5.5 ms ] story [ 23.7 ms ] thread

wangxin199 3mo ago ↗

good

JoshTriplett 3mo ago ↗

https://anubis.techaro.lol/ or https://github.com/dgl/haphash/ .

[deleted] 3mo ago ↗

(comment deleted)

aabbcc1241 3mo ago ↗

I saw them used in the linux community, maybe it's finally my time to use/need this kind of tools.

(At the same time, I'm happy if my site can help the AIs / its users, but I prefer it not significantly slow down my own usage. There should be a balanced combination)

mmarian 3mo ago ↗

Put it behind Cloudflare and try out the various firewall rules. Wrote this blog post covering some examples of rules and trade-offs https://developerwithacat.com/blog/202603/block-bots-scrapin...

Also post in r/Cloudflare subreddit. People are very helpful.