[Osmf-talk] Website Issues

[Heather Leson]

Thanks for the updates, Grant


Heather

On Tue., Jun. 14, 2022, 16:36 Grant Slater, <openstreetmap at firefishy.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> All services are running again smoothly.
>
> Reply per section...
>
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 at 14:36, Craig Allan <allan at iafrica.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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."
> >>
> > A denial of service attack?  Resource constrained?
> >
>
> 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.
>
> > Is there some management decision that the Board needs to be make to
> reduce or eliminate website congestion.
> >
>
> 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.
>
> *:
> https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2022/05/01/meet-grant-slater-the-openstreetmap-foundation-s-new-senior-site-reliability-engineer/
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Grant
>
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