call-cc.org services instability

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi,

Last week the call-cc.org was under heavy load due to the amount of
parallel requests to relatively heavy services like gitweb and trac,
causing all services provided by the call-cc.org server to respond very
slowly.

Considering the amount of parallel requests, presumably they were being
performed by automated software, which were ignoring robots.txt.

Last Friday (2024-08-09) the situation became critical, with some
services becoming totally unavailable for some periods of time due to
exhaustion of system resources.

As a reaction to that, many IP addresses that were abusing the services
were blocked via firewall.  That was done quite aggressively and it is
possible that some innocent IPs got blocked -- if you know of such
cases, please contact me.

Apologies for the inconvenience that this situation might have caused.

All the best.
Mario
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http://parenteses.org/mario