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Paloma
Posts: 1204 Joined: Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:07 pm
Full name: Herbert L
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by Paloma » Thu May 01, 2025 2:22 am
On the main page at bottom you can see how many users/guests are visiting the
site, usually it is about 100+, now it is about 1000, during the page slowdown
it was 3000+.
Yes, now is 4000+
towforce
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Location: Birmingham UK
Full name: Graham Laight
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by towforce » Thu May 01, 2025 10:41 am
Paloma wrote: ↑ Thu May 01, 2025 2:22 am
On the main page at bottom you can see how many users/guests are visiting the
site, usually it is about 100+, now it is about 1000, during the page slowdown
it was 3000+.
Yes, now is 4000+
Looks like a DOS (denial of service) attack.
Human chess is partly about tactics and strategy, but mostly about memory
Graham Banks
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Location: Auckland, NZ
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by Graham Banks » Fri May 02, 2025 12:16 am
Yeah - back to being really slow.
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PaulieD
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by PaulieD » Fri May 02, 2025 2:20 am
S-L-O-W.......
tmokonen
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by tmokonen » Fri May 02, 2025 2:28 am
Thanks Obama.
ZirconiumX
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Full name: Hannah Ravensloft
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by ZirconiumX » Fri May 02, 2025 11:48 am
On a more productive note: it might be useful to examine
Anubis for blocking these bots.
(Yes, there's the minor annoyance of waiting a few seconds for the proof-of-work script to run, but the payoff is massively reduced server load)
tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito
Jjaw
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Full name: Joe Louvier
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by Jjaw » Fri May 02, 2025 10:51 pm
This site is so slow , It's useless to try to read the threads.
Modern Times
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by Modern Times » Sat May 03, 2025 8:35 am
No problems at the moment.
chessica
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by chessica » Sat May 03, 2025 10:11 am
no, very slow:
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mclane
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by mclane » Sat May 03, 2025 11:53 am
A forum mainly for bots
What seems like a fairy tale today may be reality tomorrow.
Here we have a fairy tale of the day after tomorrow....