Amazon's AI crawler is making my git server unstable

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2025-01-17 17:00:07

To whoever runs AmazonBot, please add git.xeserv.us to your list of blocked domains. If you know anyone at Amazon, please forward this to them and ask them to forward it to the AmazonBot team.

Should you want to crawl my git server for some reason, please reach out to me so we can arrange for payment for hardware upgrades commensurate to your egregious resource usage.

I don't want to have to close off my Gitea server to the public, but I will if I have to. It's futile to block AI crawler bots because they lie, change their user agent, use residential IP addresses as proxies, and more. I just want the requests to stop.

Facts and circumstances may have changed since publication. Please contact me before jumping to conclusions if something seems wrong or unclear.

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