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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi Lisa,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Sorry you’re dealing with this! Yes, we experienced this issue fairly recently as well, and you’re right that it is very likely due to AI bots. Our ASpace instance is self-hosted. Our web developer was able to implement some measures that have helped restore
the system responsiveness, and we haven’t had a problem since then. I’m sure he’d be willing to provide further details if you’d like.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks!<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.25pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Nick Pavlik</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#6A6A6A;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><br>
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Center for Archival Collections<br>
<a href="https://www.bgsu.edu/?utm_campaign=mc-signature&utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#FD5000">Bowling Green State University</span></b></a>
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Bowling Green, OH 43403 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> OHIOARCHIVISTS <ohioarchivists-bounces@lists.oplin.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rickey, Lisa Pasquinelli via OHIOARCHIVISTS<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 10, 2025 2:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ohioarchivists@lists.oplin.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [SOA] ArchivesSpace slowness<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello-<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The last couple of weeks, we have suddenly started experiencing extreme slowness with our ArchivesSpace instance (hosted by LibraryHost). The suspicion is that it has something to do with AI bots crawling the site and just slamming the
server until it crawls. (Here’s our instance, in case you want to experience the pain by searching for something:
<a href="https://wright.libraryhost.com/">https://wright.libraryhost.com/</a>.) <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone else experiencing issues recently? And are you LibraryHost hosted, Lyrasis hosted, self-hosted, or some other hosting service I’m not aware of?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lisa Rickey<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Lisa P. Rickey, MA, MLIS, CA<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri-Light;color:black">Archivist/ Collections Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri-Light;color:black">Wright State University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri-Light;color:black">401 Dunbar Library, 3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy., Dayton, OH 45435<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri-Light;color:black">(937) 775-3581<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri-Light;color:#0563C2"><a href="mailto:lisa.rickey@wright.edu">lisa.rickey@wright.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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