Help! Slow, not loading, freezing

[nog]

Site would not load last night but ok now

 

[sirch]

Thanks for the reports, obviously several people had issues yesterday. As I said I have been working on it so I'm more interested how it is now.

 

[ancient_mariner]

Fine right now. Thanks for your time on this Chris, it must be incredibly frustrating.

 

[sirch]

Fine right now. Thanks for your time on this Chris, it must be incredibly frustrating.

Stressful! and fitting it in around work and other things in life eats into my beauty sleep which god knows I need. I did a 17 hour non-stop day on Thursday because of this issue, was at it after 11 last night and from 7 this morning

 

[srichards]

Obviously working for you now though?

Yes

 

[Gav.]

Stressful! and fitting it in around work and other things in life eats into my beauty sleep which god knows I need. I did a 17 hour non-stop day on Thursday because of this issue, was at it after 11 last night and from 7 this morning

Thank you for your efforts Chris

 

[Nod]

Stressful! and fitting it in around work and other things in life eats into my beauty sleep which god knows I need. I did a 17 hour non-stop day on Thursday because of this issue, was at it after 11 last night and from 7 this morning

Just to repeat others' comments - thanks for all the efforts; much appreciated. Helps keep me what passes for sane!

 

[gramps]

Stressful! and fitting it in around work and other things in life eats into my beauty sleep which god knows I need. I did a 17 hour non-stop day on Thursday because of this issue, was at it after 11 last night and from 7 this morning

Sorry it's been a hassle and efforts are appreciated - wouldn't having someone else knowledgeable of the system(s) be a benefit?

 

[gramps]

No further problems today

 

[tijuana taxi]

No response for a while this morning, only just got in.

 

[gramps]

Me too, seems I spoke too soon!

 

[Wacky Adventurer]

Haven't been able to get on here for most of the day.

 

[gramps]

Working now though ... weird.

 

[Mr Bump]

Wow whats going on with the site, seemed down all last eve?

 

[sirch]

Fundamentally we are seeing a huge amount of bot traffic, peaking at around 6000 bot connections at times causing the site to grind to a halt.

That said it was definitely up yesterday evening and changes I made yesterday have dramatically improved the situation.

 

[srichards]

You definitely need some kind of bot swatting device that gets rid of them. A no refresh within X seconds might curtail some of it but catch some of us that hit new posts a bit too often!

 

[sirch]

I'm not getting into the weeds on this for security and other reasons but suffice it to say that we have plenty of bot defences in place.