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everfrustratedyesterday at 9:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

Your earlier article suggests you aren't using a CDN. Might be well worth looking into - not for any bot detection so much as just having a good old fashioned cache in front of you.


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solid_fueltoday at 11:19 AM

Caches only help for pages that have been requested recently. The behavior of crawlers - going from one page to the next across the whole site - will probably not be mitigated significantly by a cache.

mplewistoday at 5:15 AM

As someone who operates a wiki, this does not solve the problem.