What looked like a bit of background noise turned out to be a DDoS attack against the ScummVM website. Anubis truly saved the day. Read the full story here: #sysops #devops #webdev
Since about 2 weeks, is subject to a DDoS attack where tens of thousands of IP addresses that disguise as legitimate browsers abuse the dynamic pages like version history and the search function, severely impacting performance and stability. While I was able to somewhat mitigate it by improving the server configuration, I now implemented the perfect solution. Say hello to Anubis. No worries, you'll get the bot challenge only once a week.
I should probably turn off my PC and don't return for the next couple of hours. Or days. image