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https://twitter.com/geerlingguy/status/1491459464339374082 attacked, apparently. Because of course it was

Got it back up now, but via Cloudflare I'm still seeing millions of POST requests per hour. Thankfully they aren't hitting the backend anymore.

One point I had made was that for 13 years I've served the site from a VPS without having to use Cloudflare. Now, apparently a few people (or one person) decided to point some sort of little botnet at it, and I have to use Cloudflare.

Gone are the days when I could smugly remark my website was still up when Cloudflare was down :(

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