Anyone else having problems with the site? It’s super slow to load and no new threads and posts.
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Anyone else having problems with the site? It’s super slow to load and no new threads and posts.
All day it’s been slow to load.
I'll take a quick gander now to see if this is something simple and within our control.
Yes,
This thread took a few minutes to load for me
How about now?
Edit: Never mind I spoke too soon. Still looking.
Okay I think I found it. There's a spider (with a not so great reputation) crawling the site. I'm going to block it. Will update soon.
Edit:
Cool. I implemented a "soft block" ... basically it can still send a request to the web server, but the web server just says "silly robot, Forbidden go away" rather than actually serving the full request which requires parsing of php code and a bunch of database queries for each request, using up actual resources. Let's see how this goes. If there are still any issues I'll block it at a firewall level.
Please keep me posted. Thanks!
Seems faster now
Should be!
To put it all in perspective, this "network" of bots made 503653 requests to the web server since 4AM this morning
Reviewing the logs, it also occurred to a lesser / shorter degree on February 13.
Thank you guys for reporting this. It's possible it can come back if they're smart and determined, but that is usually not the case. If they do come back I'll do something a little more no-comeback-able.
Shoot me a PM if it does. It makes my email go off which I might see more timely. Sooner I know about it, sooner I might be able to get to it. I'll be mostly around this weekend, but I do sleep like everybody else :D
Once again, THANK YOU all for the reports.
Just came on and it worked well for me. No issues.
Super slow and not loading or server down off line notifications