Forum Errors - 504

[AUbicycles]

Thanks for the direct reports of website errors. (504 gateway).

There was another 'attack' that knocked the site offline for genuine visitor, this time it was courtesy of Tencent (Chinese) and Huawei Cloud (Chinese) primarily from their Singapore services.

Huawei has previously done this and Tencent has been 'suspicious' however as the servers are hosted and the traffic is 'masked' you never know who is behind it. For example, they could be scrapping the website content for political, commercial or nefarious purposes.

On the tech side, I will try another technique to try to catch these earlier.

And for forum members, a nice reminder that once it is online, it is out there. Although we don't host any discussion topics that are controversial, everything is copied and stored.

Cheers
Christopher

[Retrobyte]

they could be scraping the website content for political, commercial or nefarious purposes.

Nothing to see here ... unless they drive dual cabs or they think the front end of BMWs are attractive

[jasonc]

As always. Thanks Christopher

[warthog1]

Good point Yes thankyou