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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Baie Dankie Grant,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It's great (1) to have you in place
doing the cat and mouse thing for us all and (2) it's good knowing
we aren't being targeted by something malicious.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I am very glad that the Board supports
the Ops Group to the hilt. May it stay that way.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Craig Allan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font size="1">OSM: cRaIgalLAn </font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2022/06/14 16:31, Grant Slater
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi,
All services are running again smoothly.
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On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 at 14:36, Craig Allan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:allan@iafrica.com"><allan@iafrica.com></a> wrote:
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I got this from the OSM site today. 14 June 2022 13:50 UTC
"This website is under heavy load (queue full)
We're sorry, too many people are accessing this website at the same time. We're working on this problem. Please try again later."
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">A denial of service attack? Resource constrained?
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Our systems became overloaded a few minutes ago due to a mass of
scraping requests hitting our services from <1% of users.
Some API calls are resource intensive to process. We have simple
controls in place to limit some of these unacceptable mass requests,
but it is a cat and mouse game.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Is there some management decision that the Board needs to be make to reduce or eliminate website congestion.
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The board has been very supportive of any budgetary requests from the
Operations Group ("sysadmins").
With additional time/resource now available* we can plan and build
more resilient systems.
*: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2022/05/01/meet-grant-slater-the-openstreetmap-foundation-s-new-senior-site-reliability-engineer/">https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2022/05/01/meet-grant-slater-the-openstreetmap-foundation-s-new-senior-site-reliability-engineer/</a>
Kind regards,
Grant
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