re: #164 Charles Johnson

OK, the bottom line on this outage: it doesn’t seem to be a deliberate DOS attack, but kind of a “poor man’s DOS.” We got swarmed by a fucking shitload (that’s the technical term) of bots and crawlers from China, trying to load every resource on the site directly. Probably not deliberate, but just as much of a pain in the ass as a real DOS attack.

What normal activity could cause this? China’s state search engine refreshing its caches all at once?