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Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

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597 points classichasclass | 1 comments | 25 Aug 25 04:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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lwansbrough ◴[25 Aug 25 05:55 UTC] No.45010657[source]▶
We solved a lot of our problems by blocking all Chinese ASNs. Admittedly, not the friendliest solution, but there were so many issues originating from Chinese clients that it was easier to just ban the entire country.

It's not like we can capitalize on commerce in China anyway, so I think it's a fairly pragmatic approach.

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sugarpimpdorsey ◴[25 Aug 25 06:18 UTC] No.45010787[source]▶
There's some weird ones you'd never think of that originate an inordinate amount of bad traffic. Like Seychelles. A tiny little island nation in the middle of the ocean inhabited by... bots apparently? Cyprus is another one.

Re: China, their cloud services seem to stretch to Singapore and beyond. I had to blacklist all of Alibaba Cloud and Tencent and the ASNs stretched well beyond PRC borders.

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johnisgood[dead post] ◴[25 Aug 25 08:27 UTC] No.45011573[source]▶
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pabs3 ◴[25 Aug 25 09:02 UTC] No.45011797[source]▶
Which site is it?
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johnisgood ◴[25 Aug 25 09:03 UTC] No.45011806[source]▶
My own shitty personal website that is so uninteresting that I do not even wish to disclose here. Hence my lack of understanding of the down-votes for me doing what works for my OWN shitty website, well, server.

In fact, I bet it would choke on a small amount of traffic from here considering it has a shitty vCPU with 512 MB RAM.

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spacecadet[dead post] ◴[25 Aug 25 11:11 UTC] No.45012578{5}[source]▶
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1. johnisgood ◴[25 Aug 25 11:14 UTC] No.45012589{6}[source]▶
Thanks, appreciate it. I would hope so. I do not care about down-votes per se, my main complaint is really the fact that I am somehow in the wrong for doing what I deem is right for my shitty server(s).