We have a problem with over aggressive AI bots. They are scanning everything and
are putting a crazy load on the mediawiki mysql database. This makes all out
wikis very slow and unresponsive, which is a big problem.
These AI scanners do not seem to know what they are doing and are trying to load
all the special pages, like "what links here" and "recent changes" and complete
revision histories for each page. I am not impressed. Old school google and bing
scanner bots are much more respectful and do not cause problems.
AI bots are also scanning this elog, and to Stefan's credit elogd is holding the
load just fine.
To reduce load on the MidasWiki mysql database, I now restricted access to most
special pages to logged in users. It seems to have helped.
If this causes big difficulty or if you have suggestion on better ways to deal
with aggressive AI scanner bots, please speak up.
One alternative is to put MidasWiki behind a generic login page with a well
known password. Downside is it will block google and bing search engines, too.
K.O. |