Re: [QGIS-Developer] High load on plugins.qgis.org

2024-05-14 Thread Andrea Giudiceandrea via QGIS-Developer
Il 15/05/2024 01:25, Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer ha scritto: We have been experiencing a very high load on the plugins server. Hi Tim, recently Salvatore Fiandaca spotted a website at http://qgis-hub.fast-page.org/ (only http) claiming to be a QGIS Hub for collections of free to use QGIS

Re: [QGIS-Developer] High load on plugins.qgis.org

2024-05-14 Thread Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer
On Wed, 15 May 2024 at 09:33, Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer < qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > > [high plugin load] > > Three suggestions: > > is this a distributed problem, or a few abusive addresses? In > openstreetmap I think they would just firewall the addresses in >

Re: [QGIS-Developer] High load on plugins.qgis.org

2024-05-14 Thread Greg Troxel via QGIS-Developer
[high plugin load] Three suggestions: is this a distributed problem, or a few abusive addresses? In openstreetmap I think they would just firewall the addresses in questio. please don't use google recapcha or anything else without stellar privacy policies consider rate-limiting

[QGIS-Developer] High load on plugins.qgis.org

2024-05-14 Thread Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer
Hi all We have been experiencing a very high load on the plugins server. Despite moving to a more plugins server the problem is ongoing. We plan to add some rules that require a captcha or similar if you want to download the zip files for plugins from the web site (i.e. if the user agent is not