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Advice on how to deal with AI bots/scrapers? (lemmy.librebun.com)
submitted 8 hours ago by sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Long story short, my VPS, which I'm forwarding my servers through Tailscale to, got hammered by thousands of requests per minute from Anthropic's Claude AI. All of which being from different AWS IPs.

The VPS has a 1TB monthly cap, but it's still kinda shitty to have huge spikes like the 13GB in just a couple of minutes today.

How do you deal with something like this?
I'm only really running a caddy reverse proxy on the VPS which forwards my home server's services through Tailscale. "

I'd really like to avoid solutions like Cloudflare, since they f over CGNAT users very frequently and all that. Don't think a WAF would help with this at all(?), but rate limiting on the reverse proxy might work.

(VPS has fail2ban and I'm using /etc/hosts.deny for manual blocking. There's a WIP website on my root domain with robots.txt that should be denying AWS bots as well...)

I'm still learning and would really appreciate any suggestions.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Im struggling to find it, but theres like an “AI tarpit” that causes scrapers to get stuck. something like that? Im sure I saw it posted on lemmy recently. hopefully someone can link it

[–] sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I did find this github link as the first search result, looks interesting, thanks for letting me know the term "tar pit".