[BugsJustFindMe]

Bot traffic

  Share of HTTP requests
  
  Ranking   Location   Percentage
  1.        Gibraltar    92.0%
  2.        Iran         76.9%
  3.        Singapore    76.4%
  4.        Ireland      72.9%
  5.        Netherlands  68.8%

Lol, what is happening?

[oh_fiddlesticks]

Gib probably has a handful of servers scraping, but the place is so small, it almost it eclipses normal traffic

[badmonkey0001]

Tiny peninsula; Six datacenters

The geology of the area seems to make for good cooling and DR sturdiness. One DC is even 500 meters under rock.

https://www.datacentermap.com/gibraltar/gibraltar/

https://www.datacentermap.com/gibraltar/gibraltar/continent8...

[mh-]

I'm also quite skeptical of the IP databases ability to get this correct in border regions. All of Gibraltar is, necessarily, near its borders.

[tpetry]

I do understand why all of those bot scores are so high. But netherlands? Are there big datacenter providers I dont know of that are used by bots?

[chadgpt3]

Amsterdam is one of the largest global internet hubs.

[fragmede]

https://qde.com/blog/what-is-ams-ix/