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@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ If you notice that your lemmy-ui sometimes becomes sluggish or unresponsive over
There's a lot of scraping bots online and they can easily overwhelm your site when they're behaving too "greedily". Unfortunately the existing lemmy-ui has a habit of falling over when polled too eagerly, while the backend still continues to work.
A solution is to cache responses in nginx as seen in lemmy-ansible [here](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/blob/1.5.3/templates/nginx.conf#L2-L3) and [here](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/blob/1.5.3/templates/nginx.conf#L66-L71). This way lemmy-ui doesn't have to generate all responses from scratch, which reduces CPU load.
A solution is to cache responses in nginx as seen in lemmy-ansible [here](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/blob/1.5.3/templates/nginx.conf#L2-L3) and [here](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/blob/1.5.3/templates/nginx.conf#L66-L71). This way lemmy-ui doesn't have to generate all responses from scratch, which reduces CPU load. However it won't help if a single crawler goes through thousands of unique urls in a short time.
Another option is to block the scraper's user agents. To do so, you can modify your `nginx_internal.conf` to block some of the usual suspects, with this line under `server`