Hello everyone,
Over the past few months we’ve seen a large increase in automated traffic from web scrapers and crawlers on the Processing websites. Lately, that volume has become high enough to push us against the limits of our current hosting plan. This is part of a broader trend affecting many websites.
To help keep the website available, we’ve introduced rate limiting. As a side effect, you may occasionally see a 429 (Too Many Requests) error while navigating the website. When this happens, please wait about a minute and try again. In most cases, access should recover shortly.
We’re working on moving to new infrastructure that will better handle this level of traffic and make the website more resilient long term. We’ll share updates as we have them.
Thanks for your patience while we work through this.
Raphaël
Processing Community Lead
Note: you can check status.processing.org for updates on ongoing incidents. If there is an actual outage, it will appear there.