[QGIS-Developer] High load on plugins.qgis.org

[Tim Sutton]

Last note: we have also made some other config tweaks (thanks Lova!) that
should keep the site responsive for now:

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/pull/403/files#diff-5a78fbaa554f856acb6f21c8763007068d8b19b4d40e83715c379204a7011288R88
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/pull/403/files#diff-546da9eb17742d02076338cf2ce4fbc4bb0449df7f89238466af05dee65b9c4cR21
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/pull/403/files#diff-546da9eb17742d02076338cf2ce4fbc4bb0449df7f89238466af05dee65b9c4cR10

Regards

Tim


On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 10:03 AM Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> So our fix proposal is here:
>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/issues/402
>
> I don't think chasing IP addresses is a productive way to deal with it -
> you end up playing whack-a-mole. I think our approach should cover most
> cases. A really dedicated person could emulate the QGIS user agent but I
> think that will be uncommon.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 9:54 AM Julien Moura (Oslandia) via QGIS-Developer
> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> Can you share more details about this? Do you have a HTTP referrer, IP
>> or user-agent or anything else in particular to blame?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Julien
>>
>> Le 15/05/2024 à 02:12, Andrea Giudiceandrea via QGIS-Developer a écrit :
>> > Il 15/05/2024 01:25, Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer ha scritto:
>> >> We have been experiencing a very high load on the plugins server.
>> >
>> > Hi Tim,
>> > recently Salvatore Fiandaca spotted a website at
>> > http://qgis-hub.fast-page.org/ (only http) claiming to be a QGIS Hub
>> > for collections of free to use QGIS style xml-files and layout
>> qpt-files.
>> > Is it managed by QGIS.org or somebody known? If not, may it have
>> > something to do with the plugins server issues (someone scraping
>> > styles/layouts/plugins)?
>> >
>> > Regards.
>> >
>> > Andrea
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