Omega8.cc: Doors That Do Not Exist

Read one night of a Drupal or Backdrop site's log and most of it had no business with that site: WordPress login probes on a site which never ran WordPress, fishing for secret files, a thousand pages nobody ever made, from about as many addresses, one request apiece. On an ordinary server each of them wakes PHP for a not-found page, until no worker is free and your real visitors see an error instead of the site. On a BOA server those shapes are refused inside the web server before PHP or the database are consulted, the connection closed for what is only ever abuse, a cheap static not-found where a real page could once in a while match; the rest is judged afterwards by what an address did, a fleet by the share of failures it collects, the search engines whitelisted before anyone is banned; and during a swarm nobody can classify, each site keeps a limit on uncached renders so the cache answers everybody else. A block lasts about a quarter of an hour and lifts on its own.