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:

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The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack

Anubis, designed to protect your website from unwanted requests from AI crawlers, is way more powerful than you might think.

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Since about 2 weeks,

Making sure you're not a bot!

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.