Forum has been very slow 2 days now...

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Paloma
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Re: Forum has been very slow 2 days now...

Post by Paloma »

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+ :x
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Re: Forum has been very slow 2 days now...

Post by towforce »

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+ :x

Looks like a DOS (denial of service) attack.
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Post by Graham Banks »

Yeah - back to being really slow. :|
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S-L-O-W.......
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Thanks Obama.
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Post by ZirconiumX »

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)
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Re: Forum has been very slow 2 days now...

Post by Jjaw »

This site is so slow , It's useless to try to read the threads.
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Post by Modern Times »

No problems at the moment.
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Post by chessica »

no, very slow:

Who is online

In total there are 4409 users online :: 7 registered, 0 hidden and 4402 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 4775 on Fri May 02, 2025 7:56 pm
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Re: Forum has been very slow 2 days now...

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A forum mainly for bots
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