Forum has been very slow 2 days now...

[syzygy]

I don't know if this can help:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/blo ... h-reaction

[scchess]

It's too slow... I just can't use this site. I have some spare time now, is there anything I can help the devop team to optimise it? I'd volunteer my time rather than waiting in the spinning loop forever.

[tapio]

The whole TC experience over a longer timespan is either waiting 5-15 seconds for a result, or a http error, something about "not allowed to access this resource", the latter happens in like 10 percent.
Sending this comment took 15 seconds.

[Modern Times]

Little doubt that when Your Move Chess & Games were offered a decent sum of money to let this website go to new custodians they were happy to see it go.

I agree that it requires a lot of patience these days with the abysmal speed.

[smatovic]

Seems the robot army has now overrun chess programming wiki...

429 Too Many Requests
nginx

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Srdja

[smatovic]

Seems the robot army has now overrun chess programming wiki...

429 Too Many Requests
nginx

--
Srdja

From the start page:

Currently it is again looking for a new hosting solution.

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Srdja

[Rebel]

Seems the robot army has now overrun chess programming wiki...

429 Too Many Requests
nginx

--
Srdja

From the start page:

Currently it is again looking for a new hosting solution.

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Srdja

Makes me wonder, is there not forum software that not has this problem and can import our database ?

[smatovic]

Seems the robot army has now overrun chess programming wiki...

429 Too Many Requests
nginx

--
Srdja

From the start page:

Currently it is again looking for a new hosting solution.

--
Srdja

Makes me wonder, is there not forum software that not has this problem and can import our database ?

The problem is not the forum software, it is too many requests (robots) for the little server.

Options:

1. harden the Linux firewall further
2. upgrade the hardware to be able to handle more load
3. use a CDN, content delivery network, like Cloudflare to block bot traffic

A switch to another forum software won't help.

***edit***
4. a quick and simple solution with some side effects would be to put all forum content into "private", viewable only after login of a user

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Srdja

[smatovic]

Seems the robot army has now overrun chess programming wiki...

429 Too Many Requests
nginx

--
Srdja

From the start page:

Currently it is again looking for a new hosting solution.

--
Srdja

Makes me wonder, is there not forum software that not has this problem and can import our database ?

The problem is not the forum software, it is too many requests (robots) for the little server.

Options:

1. harden the Linux firewall further
2. upgrade the hardware to be able to handle more load
3. use a CDN, content delivery network, like Cloudflare to block bot traffic

A switch to another forum software won't help.

***edit***
4. a quick and simple solution with some side effects would be to put all forum content into "private", viewable only after login of a user

--
Srdja

...as with the last time, someone needs to take a look into log files and monitoring tools first to figure out what is going, what causes the high load.

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Srdja

[Rebel]

Seems the robot army has now overrun chess programming wiki...

429 Too Many Requests
nginx

--
Srdja

From the start page:

Currently it is again looking for a new hosting solution.

--
Srdja

Makes me wonder, is there not forum software that not has this problem and can import our database ?

The problem is not the forum software, it is too many requests (robots) for the little server.

Options:

1. harden the Linux firewall further
2. upgrade the hardware to be able to handle more load
3. use a CDN, content delivery network, like Cloudflare to block bot traffic

If Cloudflare is what we need, we should do it.

***edit***
4. a quick and simple solution with some side effects would be to put all forum content into "private", viewable only after login of a user

Anything that helps.

...as with the last time, someone needs to take a look into log files and monitoring tools first to figure out what is going, what causes the high load.

Thanks for your help.

Do you sill have access and willing to implement 4. ?