Abubis - Staying Online with AI Bots
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Hardening your EPrints instance so it can survive the onslaught of bizarre behaviour from (presumed) AI bots.
From 2025(ish) onwards, EPrints instances can struggle to stay online from DDOS-like behaviour that is flung at it regularly.
EPrints Services have been working on a solution that uses Anubis to attempt filter out bots for specific pages, and nginx to add a cache and apply rate and connection limiting. Our solution is tailored to our hosting infrastructure, but should be relatively easy to adapt to a bespoke EPrints installation. This page documents how the solution works and how it is configured.
