Slowness?
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sighyoung
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Re: Slowness?
with
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sighyoung
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Re: Slowness?
slowness,
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sighyoung
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Re: Slowness?
too.
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Donnie Ebert
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Re: Slowness?
Sigh, your shameless attempt to increase your post count has been noted by our new AI moderator, MoxieAI.
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GeddyWrox
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Re: Slowness?
BRAVODonnie Ebert wrote: ↑July 28 25, 3:29 pmSigh, your shameless attempt to increase your post count has been noted by our new AI moderator, MoxieAI.
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ghostrunner
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Re: Slowness?
Hey @CardsofSTL and @TheoSqua
Just offering in case - if you need help with maintaining the site, let me know. Not my usual area of IT support, but I imagine I can figure it out and ask if can't. Not asking to be a mod again, but can maybe help with technical stuff.
Just offering in case - if you need help with maintaining the site, let me know. Not my usual area of IT support, but I imagine I can figure it out and ask if can't. Not asking to be a mod again, but can maybe help with technical stuff.
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CardsofSTL
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Re: Slowness?
If you want to be a mod again just say so and submit your application fee.ghostrunner wrote: ↑July 31 25, 11:59 amHey @CardsofSTL and @TheoSqua
Just offering in case - if you need help with maintaining the site, let me know. Not my usual area of IT support, but I imagine I can figure it out and ask if can't. Not asking to be a mod again, but can maybe help with technical stuff.
Seriously, the slowness seems to be server related; as everyone knows we migrated to a much more affordable host. And it seems that when the bot traffic hits we get bogged down. I know Theo was submitting a ticket to them to look into it but I don't have a lot more information to provide than that.
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TheoSqua
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Re: Slowness?
The hosting support team was able to confirm that it was a bot attack. The new host has a lot of anti-bot functionality, but this was coming from a global host called tencent that also has a lot of valid traffic.
We don't really get traffic from China/WeApp, so I OK'ed them banning the IP range - but if we get bot attacks from sources like that we will have to manually clean it up.
I just set up the site to go through cloudflare. That will at least provide IP rate limiting. If that doesn't prevent the bot attacks then we'll need to buy their commercial package which is currently $20 a month.
We don't really get traffic from China/WeApp, so I OK'ed them banning the IP range - but if we get bot attacks from sources like that we will have to manually clean it up.
I just set up the site to go through cloudflare. That will at least provide IP rate limiting. If that doesn't prevent the bot attacks then we'll need to buy their commercial package which is currently $20 a month.