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Title: PDN Website Down
Date: March 6, 2026
Listening To: Ryan Hall Y'all stream

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  I just had to take nginx offline on my VPS. The gopher
server won't be affected, but the website is down for the
time being. I need to either set up something to help
protect it from bots, or just something. I didn't want to
set up Anubis, but I might have to.

  The worst part is that the *AI* bots are being better
behaved than the "security scanner" and exploit bots that
keep hammering the server. They keep trying to exploit
non-existant WordPress and WebDAV vulnerabilities, of which
I run neither. It's a static site using SSI[^0] for a
template. That's it. Not even CGI, as much as I want to do
stuff with that.

  Sadly, I'm pretty sure gopherspace and gemini aren't any
better protected in the grand scheme of things, but at the
very least, it's not going to surge usage on the VPS and
potentially cost me money. If I could, I'd host the thing
myself.

  It's depressing to think that, despite all of the anger
over AI problems, it's security stuff that's doing more
damage than they are for me. Whelp...

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[^0]: Server-Side Includes