QuakeWiki.org ~upgrade~ needs your help

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4,75€ starting next month though. Hetzner had to raise their prices.

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perfect!

i've blocked a few more user-agents: Amzn-SearchBot, Sogou, and the following ip ranges:

access.check = (
  "deny" => (
    "43.173.0.0/16",
    "45.133.170.0/24",  # hivelocity
    "185.47.92.0/22",   # uab bite lietuva
    "198.46.196.0/24",  # hostpapa
    "198.23.217.0/24",  # hostpapa carwler
    "101.47.24.0/21",   # byteplus
    "98.80.0.0/13",     # amazon
    "157.255.216.0/22", # newsai bot china unicom
    "113.165.0.0/20",   # VNPT corp, vietnam (res proxy?)
    "14.234.176.0/20",  # VNPT corp
    "23.100.0.0/15",    # microsoft hosting
    "172.160.0.0/11",   # microsoft hosting
  ),
  "allow" => ("all")
)

i've also denied all access to the regex (type=signup|type=login|days=30|diff=|logid=|Special(%3A|:)|MediaWiki(%3A|:)) if the user-agent contains any of bot, @, http, spider.

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hey @Spirit , i made a dumb tool to pretty print the live log

tail -f /var/log/lighttpd/access.log | python3 prettylog.py

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hi, i bring an update.

81% of all requests have been blocked since i last posted. this, on top of the hardware upgrade, has brought the server load down to 0.08 (5m avg) which is roughly 4% utilization.

the server is fully responsive now.

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Cheers! The main question for me is still if you or someone else could take over the site's maintenance completely.

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yeah i can manage the quakewiki.org page indefinitely. what's one more server? i already deal with like 11 machines.

i'd definitely go nuclear and geo ip block entire countries and large ip ranges though.

how was this dealt with? i'm not from europe

edit: i assumed people were in europe because the server is in europe. i have no idea where anyone is from

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https://quakewiki.org/wiki/Quake_palette this page is contradicting itself. The infographic is misinforming the reader by claiming only the first bottom row has fullbrights, while the article itself says the truth. “"Fullbright" colors are those which are not lit in the colormap, simply using the original color for all 64 shades. These colors, when used in textures and model skins, will not be affected by lighting. Fullbrights are used for things like fire and glowing lights. In Quake these are the last 32 colors in the palette.”

This might sound as a non-issue, however i relied on the infographic while making a custom texture and then wondering why it still has fullbright colors.

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nice catch! if you've got a minute, feel free to edit the page and improve the situation. the wiki is community-maintained, so your fix would help everyone who's looking at palette/texture details :smiley:

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upgraded mediawiki to 1.43.7

upgraded to mediawiki 1.43.8 now

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Sorry for the silence, I'll be in touch about the sites soon :right_facing_fist: