For the record, on a site I frequent there was a MediaWiki installation that consisted of maybe twenty pages. It was just one thing running on the domain -- there were far more important things hosted there. The wiki seldom had edits, it mostly just existed to serve some documentation.

Last May this wiki started getting hit by so many scrapers that the rest of the site had become unreachable. The admin mentioned over 60k accesses a day.

There was some effort done blocking IP ranges, but in the end, the MediaWiki installation got closed, converted to static pages. It was probably the only option available left to the admin.

The site was/is hosted on a VPS I believe. So, yeah. It's not just Perlmonks that is affected, nor is it Perlmonks' ageing hardware that is singly at fault. Unlike the neighbouring poster insinuated.

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