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You don't need node.js to do this. It's completely possible to continue using PHP. PHP is faster than javascript when you use something like swoole to enable async behavior. You can do async behavior with PHP without swoole, but it's more difficult.

That's awesome to hear. what do your average guest counts look like before/after? Keep us up to date, haven't heard of anyone else where running anubis.

Doesn't hit very hard when someone who doesn't care about privacy or better uptime is mocking me :)

I ended up banning china mobile and i think some other ISP. My numbers look great due to this racist policy. But the one major source of this crap from China that i haven't shut off is now going haywire. It's real browsers in a clickfarm, thus they show up in google analytics. Normally the...

I'm also not a fan of this overly wordy version of doublespeak. But i just don't like their software, how it works, or the problems the programming language it's built in has.

Do you have some before/after results with cloudflare.. Or a site that runs this so i can see your bot traffic?

I saw this site climb to 17k bots rapidly.. now mine's at 20k :( What i'm seeing reminds me of that anubis breakthrough - so distributed that rate limiters won't work. Generally the IPs are generally doing this or hitting what's new: This is indefensible with fail2ban isn't it. I might...

Mine spiked to 12k briefly but i saw 17k here. msnbot/bingbot is the primary source of terror for me lately

^-- i'm glad i missed those posts

Hmm, nightmare fuel for sure. That's the enormous Brazil network of hacked devices. AFAIK they are using something very close to a real browser and are more distributed than anything we've seen. It's hard to defend against and requires low level data and behavioral analysis... or just banning a...

BTW there's another issue with cloudflare. They're being forced to be intellectual property cop now too. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/20/japan/crime-legal/cloudflare-manga-piracy/ What's next? Well i'm motivated to work on my alternative now, ha

Something almost as bad as that is already happening. It's the right call to make the long bet that a service like this would lead to centralization and eventually a government would come along to abuse that trust. FSM-Hotline being based in the EU is worrying for free speech if they start...

Thank you and sorry to hear of the trouble!

I'm honestly a little terrified for the future of the internet when i see that so much of it has centralized on a single provider who, at the moment, seems to be slipping. Hope they get their act together because half the internet is at risk if they don't. Unfortunately my current solution...

Yeah.. i can't think of a single software today that doesn't require bolting on aftermarket software on. It's a shame, we are going to lose the indie internet over it if someone doesn't intervene. Thanks, it would be great to have some people interested in it once i've proven it out on our...