Re: snippets website down?

On Sat, 2026-07-25 at 23:12 +0200, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> Le samedi 25 juillet 2026 =C3=A0 16:13 +0100, Graham King a =C3=A9crit=C2=
=A0:
> > I'm getting "403 Forbidden" from nginx at
> > https://wiki.lilypond.community/
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> > any ideas?
> > -- Graham
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> Hi, wiki admin here. The wiki has suffered a lot of lags and outages
> lately. It improved things when I blocked some crawlers and
> especially
> the one for Meta's AI two weeks ago, but the outages have still
> reappeared.
> I noticed an outage yesterday and, as a stop-gap measure, blocked an
> IP
> range that was making large numbers of bot-like requests without
> announcing
> it in the User-Agent. Today there was an outage again and I didn't
> see
> any IP range standing out in number of requests. It was also a bit
> surprising
> to see the wiki overloaded because the number of requests was not
> that high
> (on the order of 10 requests/second, variable depending on the
> moment, and not
> counting blocked bots), so this afternoon I took a look at speeding
> up the
> wiki, for which I temporarily implemented a block of all requests
> except
> those from my own IP in order to be able to actually access it and
> test
> its performance, and that's probably the moment where you wrote the
> above.
> Now there's more caching, and I also temporarily blocked all requests
> to the
> page Special:RecentChangesLinked, which were making up the vast
> majority
> of requests, certainly from bots again (though distributed in the IP
> address
> space). So the wiki is back=E2=80=A6 for now. I don't know how long this =
will
> last and
> it's an unsatisfactory state to have this page inaccessible, but I'm
> doing what
> I can with the time I have, sorry.
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> Jean
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> (Please keep me CCed in replies, as I'm not subscribed to this list.)

The site is accessible again now.  Jean, many thanks for your
explanation and for all your wonderful contributions, including the
website.