Anubis & NGINX

Anubis - Open source and amazing.I started a blog post last week as I patched my Leaf hobby project to be a bit more restrictive on what it bans due to my requests abruptly growing from 50k/day to 2mil/day. I thought that was going to be the end of it, but then I got more alerts of downtime and saw my hits had grown to over 4 million a day. There is no natural growth of a Halo Infinite stat site from 50k to 4 million visits in any world.This didn't seem like an out of control bot anymore due to thousands of those requests just opening/closing the connection incredibly fast. Once my PHP workers were exhausted and 502's were returned - these vast set of IPs would continue hammering. It just didn't seem like stuff that regular spiders or bots would do.So once I had some downtime I started digging into this again.Hits spiking to 4 million/dayI pulled some logs locally to re-run some analytics and was surprised to see a major jump from 2 million hits a day to over 4 million. Unfortunately…