Cerber wrote: ↑Mon Oct 13, 2025 3:54 pm Yes, something like that. Most of the time they just come in bursts, in waves, flooding website with requests. Some of them identify themselves, others don't, some of them throw thousands of requests from few IPs, others throw handful of requests from thousands of IP's, it varies, but the end result is often exhausted resources account/website (CPU&RAM), then nothing is left for server to use to generate and serve page for normal human visitors, if one happen to come at that time.
In a "shared" environments individual accounts (websites) have quotas set for resources, so if some individual website gets flooded by bots it shouldn't cause problems for the rest of the server, normally, but these days hosting providers oversell resources to such degree that server might have enough resources only for handful of sites to be very busy at the same exact time, so everything is fine only as long as bots and crawlers are not flooding multiple sites on the same machine, otherwise things escalate and deteriorate fast. Linux machines have that funky quirk were those tend to get very unresponsive if the whole machines runs out of RAM, and often need full reboot to recover, unless guys manage to deal with the issue in time. Our current host seem to be struggling a little, at times, server was rebooted at least twice already in a month, which is a lot imho.
That makes sense that it would be the site and/or the server if multiple sites were flooded. I wonder if site selection by these AIs/bots is just random brute force or if there are any selection criteria or something that keeps them returning to a specific site.
As for the AIs, I wonder what their purpose is if they're not spamming anything. Maybe they find something worthwhile on some occult forums to supplement their data centers/language models.
Anyway, from the activity I've seen over the past couple days it looks like you may have done something and that it is working; maybe it's just coincidence. Maybe you are blocking IP locations. I did notice once though that the guest count exceeded 300.
