had to reboot the server sorry for the down time

[TheButcher]

Hi guys

I had to restart mysql and reboot the server, sorry it took about 10 minutes, peace

[tacnet]

Looks like its on an intermittent heavy load. Every so often it seems to be slowing down

[TheButcher]

Looks like its on an intermittent heavy load. Every so often it seems to be slowing down

I know but the tech at my host says they can not find any suspicious activity. I hope it's not going to be one of those weekends when i have to keep replying to the support ticket and hearing there is nothing wrong

[tacnet]

Seems ok at the moment. Hopefully its just one of those glitches

[TheButcher]

Seems ok at the moment. Hopefully its just one of those glitches

From your mouth to God's ears.

[TheButcher]

There is an unusually high number of search bots on the site today.


Bots: AdsBot [Google], Baidu [Spider], Bing [Bot], DuckDuckGo [Bot], Google [Bot], Google Feedfetcher, Majestic-12 [Bot], YaCy [Bot]

1895 bots


That is way more than on an average day.

[GlennfromLA]

The forum is very slow today tell the techs to escalate the ticket if they can not figure out what the problem is. Most level 1 techs are dumb fucks.

[TheButcher]

They blocked some IP's and the load is back to normal.

[3ric]

Some loser must be jealous how well this board is doing.

[tacnet]

Just be careful which bots they are blocking

Baidu (China's equivalent to google) is well known for bringing a site to a standstill and that one you can probably afford to block. But I would try and leave the others open

[TheButcher]

Just be careful which bots they are blocking

Baidu (China's equivalent to google) is well known for bringing a site to a standstill and that one you can probably afford to block. But I would try and leave the others open

It does not seem to be Baidu but not to give any information to agravate the situation I sent you a pm with the IP blocks the techs have blocked.It does appear to be another DDOS.

peace

[DonMK]

It is a good server whatever it is your site opens very fast

[tacnet]

Have you thought about https://gtmetrix.com/ ?? We've been using them for years

They will regularly monitor you page speed (daily or hourly) so if it slows down, at least you've got something you can show your hosts to prove there's something worng

I think their packages start from $5 a month