CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@Gaelan Yeah we're on plenty of those lists
I suppose it's a compliment of sorts

@Viss It's possible but it's so consistent that I doubt it.
One of the many "joys" of being a relatively well-known presence on the internet I spose

@Viss There's quarter of a million distinct IPs so no, I haven't done that but I have looked at the ASNs from which the requests come and they're mostly eyeball ISPs. I suspect there's some common router config or similar which uses it as "is the internet working" - the usual

83% of requests (globally) to our apex homepages (bbc.co.uk/ and bbc.com/) are from "Python Requests".

That's 84 million requests per day.

In the words of Bricktop...

#BBC #WebStats #PythonRequests #BrickTop

@simonzerafa Good Q. I have no idea but am hoping the bubble beings to deflate and things get at least slightly more reasonable.
Another CDN supplier told us yesterday that they were smart enough to buy all the kit they need for this FY a few months back, just before the RAM price inflation went to the moon.

A very large CDN supplier emailed us today to say they are having to increase prices because their energy costs have risen up to 2x and servers are now 1.5x the price.

Sounds like AI crap making everything else more expensive, again.