Hello Vercel Community Support,
My Hobby plan was suspended on July 1st 2025 because of exceeding limits on the free-tier (requests, bandwidth, etc.).
Only one project is the root cause for this: https://datasette-dashboards-demo.vercel.app
This one is a demo deployment for an open-source Python library: GitHub - rclement/datasette-dashboards: Datasette plugin to create interactive dashboards
This is not a normal OSS project fame activity but abnormal bot activity:
Activity is going down now but still way more than expected and always coming from the same range of IP addresses (47.79.0.0/16):
I have enabled the following in the Firewall section for this project but nothing seems to work:
Attack challenge mode: enabled
Bot Protection: challenge
AI Bots: deny
IP addresses CIDR denying for “47.79.0.0/16”
IP addresses CIDR rate limiting for “47.79.0.0/16”
I do not know what else I can do here. Any help to resolve this issue?
system
(system)
July 8, 2025, 9:01am
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The domain troubleshooting guide can help with most custom domain configuration issues. You might be able to use that guide to solve it before a human is available to help you. Then you can come back here and share the answer for bonus points .
You can also use v0 to narrow down the possibilities.
anshumanb
(Anshuman Bhardwaj)
July 8, 2025, 9:56am
5
Hi @romainclement , welcome to the Vercel Community!
I’m sorry to hear that your project is being attacked. Let me check with the team about this and get back to you.
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Hi @anshumanb ,
Did you get some more info about this situation by any chance?
anshumanb
(Anshuman Bhardwaj)
July 10, 2025, 6:31am
8
Hi @romainclement , we are still looking into it. But, so far we learned that this is happening because the rules were activated after the account was already paused. That’s why there might be some discrepancies.
anshumanb
(Anshuman Bhardwaj)
July 14, 2025, 4:35am
9
Hi @romainclement , just wanted to let you know that this case is being worked on by our support team and we’ll let you know the findings and outcomes.
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