You may have noticed some instability with composr.app. This screenshot should sum it up:
The composr.app website is getting a LOT of traffic (unfortunately, it's from bots). The site on its own can handle it. However, the statistics addon cannot.
All of this traffic is resulting in massive amounts of data having to be processed by the statistics addon. It can't handle that in its current state.
I am working hard on a solution. Unfortunately, it involves a lot of complex database/SQL and heavy optimisation to how we previously handled statistics in Composr.
Until this fix is implemented, the site will periodically throw Bad Gateway errors. Just try again in 5-10 minutes.
I apologize for the inconvenience this is causing.
Comments
I'd rather not invest my time in Anubis right now. The issue isn't the traffic. It's the statistics addon. I'm disabling the statistics Cron on Composr.app when I don't need it to run. The site works fine when the statistics Cron is not trying to process many thousands of records every 15 minutes. However, I have to remember to disable it. LOL. I've been forgetting. And that is why the site often randomly runs slowly.
I've been slowly working on this for several months. I'm figuring out the most optimal way to store and retrieve statistical data in the database when there are potentially millions of records per month. I still haven't found a solution that meets my standards. I don't know if I will. But I'll keep trying to the extent that I can. Unfortunately, there are some things that might just end up broken/disabled or removed from Composr (such as statistics) if I exhaust every possible thing that I can do. One developer can only do so much.
I think the optimization these botnets are forcing in Composr might actually be a good thing in the long-term. But short-term, I wanted to offer that as another mitigation option to look into in addition to Cloudflare. Lots of other FLOSS development communities are using Anubis at this point in time (although more for their source code repos/issue trackers/etc, and not necessarily for just their homepages).