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I've seen 10,000's-100,000's of unique IP addresses at times, yeah, that wouldn't work for me. I'm not surprised that residential proxies walk through it!

Your word per token is off, a token can be as small as 1 character, but usually closer to 3 characters. a punctuation mark or space is usually a token too. We're still doing napkin math but 3x that figure But you may also be leaving out reasoning tokens, overhead of their system prompt, overhead...

To be clear: I think AI could do a lot of interesting things on a forum.. ..but the costs are nuts right now.. ..we really need the hardware to improve 2-3x in efficiency/cost. ( i say this as i sit next to a 50lbs AI box that can draw 900w from the wall and make the office into a sauna if a...

That's good. But let's think seriously about the cost of AI features. Per function that AI performs ( versus just using regular programming ), the resource cost is >1000x more The more you use it, the more your operations cost increases. At my dev shop, we found out how much hardware we need to...

I've heard of someone here having success with it

It's bad out there. On my magento site that gets attacked often now, i'm seeing a flood of residential proxies from USA cable providers. I unfortunately have to keep 'under attack mode' on :cry: Everyone is still blissfully running fail2ban. The only good alternative is to design a friendlier...

Honestly, amazing ratio of fradulent traffic to not. I Think this is not because cloudflare is great, but whatever forum this is is great :)

FYI i'm on the pro plan and i'm getting effective protection after some tuning. If they shove me into the business tier ( $200/mo ), i'm 100% building the alternative. So far my 31 other servers don't need cloudflare, they are not running ultra slow magento :)

I have something to confess. This giant distributed scraping wave is walking past some of my non-xenforo fail2ban setups which have a very high CPU load to hit ratio. I moved them to cloudflare, and they are already complaining about some occasional outages in different regions and want my...

Interesting. How do you accomplish this? do you have a custom log format? I'm still in the middle of building my thing, but i thought about this a lot and it turned me off from this plugin. It's interesting otherwise. I have a little script now that can write all the data for a web hit to PHP...

I don't expect any UA identification to work in the future. The majority of bots i see are randomizing theirs. The way i would configure anubis: users submit 5 seconds of CPU time we retain the 'user passed the check' for 30 days so a real user only needs to pass it rarely rework the anubis UI...

I'm a big fan of hetzner lately for my server hosting clients. Product to cost ratio is excellent. However there's lots of sticky things to cut one's hands on with their backend administration, so i would only recommend it to someone else if they're willing to get very geeky.

Damn, you had to ban linux users huh :( If they are using real browsers, then yes, they can get around almost anything. The more people who use anubis, the higher the cpu tax will be on these bot farms and we could theoretically make the job too expensive if tons of people use something like...

Worked for me. Thanks! Interesting, 2.2.x doesn't have this problem, the ideal setting is the opposite

for me port 587 is also broken in 2.3.x. and my provider is blocking port 465 :(