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LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut
SourceHut continues to face disruptions due to aggressive LLM crawlers. We are continuously working to deploy mitigations. We have deployed a number of mitigations which are keeping the problem contained for now. However, some of our mitigations may impact end-users. In particular, we have deployed Nepenthes to certain routes which are associated with large volumes of LLM-related traffic. You may encounter certain pages which are not usable as a result, especially if you are not logged in.
March 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM UTC ◆ This issue is not resolved yetSourceHut continues to face disruptions due to aggressive LLM crawlers. We have unilaterally blocked several cloud providers, including GCP and Azure, for the high volumes of bot traffic originating from their networks. If your cloud server is experiencing problems using SourceHut, and you have a legitimate reason to do so, you must email support to request an exception.
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