A website of mine was getting thickly attacked by bots. This has become even worse than in the last few months. My Monthly Network Transfer limits were under threat to be exceeded, at my cloud hosting provider. So I installed Anubis to protect my site. After only one day of use of Anubis, the volume of traffic to my site all of a sudden reduced by about 40%. Anubis can be quite tricky to install.

I’ve had to abandon a backup drive, where a strange thing happened. After extensive testing, narrowing down where the problem was, an “fsck.ext4 -a” couldn’t detect a subtle, deeper issue. To detect the issue was brutally difficult, because the drive also got clean bill of health from “smartctl”. I reformatted it to BTRFS, to afford me scrubbing. It was only during a scrub that I could see the deeper issue - a massive slowdown in scrub speed partway through the scrub.