My instance is getting pummeled by scrapers crawling nonsense. Like issue and pull searches with every single variant of label combinations.
Everything’s coming from a shitload of different residential IPs at a very fast cadence.
There’s just not that much content on my instance to warrant this traffic. It could be scraped in a minute or two like this if it were legitimate traffic.
It sounds to me like you are at the mercy of the bots then unfortunately. I have had literal empty websites up just to see what the bots do and within a few hours the sites are hammered with crazy bot traffic trying everything from MySQL connections, ssh, Wordpress sniffing, xss attacks, you name it. They don’t even seem to care that the site is 403 forbidden or just a blank page.
It’s the World Wide Web we live in nowadays according to my experience.
oh yeah, I see that on everything. I’m not so worried about those vuln scanners than this overwhelming nonsense traffic that I’m seeing now. This is different, and seemingly pointless.