I got a PI and have put NGINX on and opened up a port now my internet is slow!

Hello

Thank you so much!

Uhh, we need more information than that bud, give us specifics like port number and type, nginx version, pi version, os version and your network setup.

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it might also be your ISP throttling your connection

Take a look in the Terms of Service of your ISP. They might have a clause against running services at home. They might auto detect port 80 and 443 (HTTP & HTTPS) and throttle.

If someone is saturating your network with requests to nginx you will find it in the logs at one of these locations:

 /var/log/nginx/error.log
 /var/log/nginx/access.log
 or
 /var/log/access.log

When in doubt check the configuration in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and look for access_log and error_log.

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I want to be able to Wake on Lan another server via the Pi. So I need to either open a port for ssh or http so I can run a php script to send the magic packet.

I dont think my isp has any issues with have a server unless traffic is bad, but how can stop bots from trying to log in?

I had a look through the logs and its not that bad maybe 1 attempt a minute, are there any tricks to making the bots give up?

Thanks

the bots never give up.

you can try and move the ports to a non standard port where the bots wont look