For much of the day Sydney time, the VM hosting this site and a few for my family have been smashed with traffic with spoofed headers, but from IP ranges associated with the Alibaba Cloud, specifically these: 47.79.200.0/24 47.79.206.0/24 47.79.207.0/24 They issued a sufficient number of requests to overwhelm my php_fpm pool, resulting in sites sometimes returning a 502 Bad Gateway. Bad gateway, bad. I’ve blocked the entire damned ranges for now and bumped up my server specs, which seems to have restored access. Thanks to Simon, Rebecca H, and Walter for emailing me today to let me know. I’m not sure what the motivation was here; I don’t think they were “AI” scrapers this time. Maybe they don’t like phở? By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-06-19.
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