[Osmf-talk] Website Issues

[Craig Allan]

Baie Dankie Grant,

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.
I am very glad that the Board supports the Ops Group to the hilt. May it 
stay that way.

Craig Allan
OSM: cRaIgalLAn
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On 2022/06/14 16:31, Grant Slater 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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