Hey everyone,
I assuming if you are reading this, you also noticed that the instance has been down for a few hours. We have been struggling with some sort of traffic issue from our mlmym self-hosted instance at https://old.literature.com/. It had been flooding the instance with so many requests that it could not keep up. I went ahead and shut it down and we should be good to go for now. I’m not totally sure what that issue was but if I figure it out I will throw it in the comments.
I also learned today that mlmym has been abandoned by the developer. :(
Anyway hope everything is smooth sailing from here. I will post a more detailed “state of the server” later this week.
Thanks all!
EDIT:
I deployed Anubis in front of mlmym so https://old.literature.com/ is back up for anyone that uses that front end (me included). If this is successful, I mostly likely will deploy Anubis against the main frontend as well. Stay tuned for any announcements about that.
The issue with mlmym is that it serves static HTML which AI scrapers love, so they just hit it until your rate limits are exhausted. The .world people have actually forked it. Ignore the readme though, you should run the image
ghcr.io/fedihosting-foundation-forks/mlmym:main
and to get around bots degrading your server, you can do what I did with old.feddit.uk and redirect requests to the login page unless they’re logged in:Conf snippet
What a wonderful world that has been created for us. Thanks for the help I’ll get this deployed! I’ll probably just put anubis in front of mlmym though I think.