Anna’s Archive.

If you just host for yourself, you don’t gain that much by using Seerr, besides having a nicer UI and you have more search filters compared to Sonarr and Radarr.

However, if you have multiple users, you benefit a lot of it. Users, which have individual user accounts, can request media. Depending on the configuration, those requests have to be accepted manually, which gives you a way to still be in control of what ends up on your server. The user then gets notified about what has happened and if the media was downloaded.

Those are some very good and helpful insights, thank you very much for sharing. I was also hosting forgejo and used traefik as reverse proxy. However, my forgejo was locked down, which is probably why I had no bot attack.

Some thoughts:

• fail2ban works for malicious requests very good, meaning things that get logged somewhere.
• CrowdSec has an AI Bot Blocklist, which they offer for free if you host a FOSS project.
• I am developing a tool which blocks CIDR ranges based on country directly via ufw. Maybe blocking countries helps in such a case, but not everyone wants to block whole countries.

That’s very interesting, as if only certain types of content get crawled. May I know what kind of software you used and if you had a reverse proxy in front of it?

Thanks for your time explaining. I have multiple public facing services and I never had any issues with load just because of some crawlers. That’s why I always wonder why people get so mad at them

And what was the reason for blocking them? What is unbearable?