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Forum Downtime (Jan 29) Update
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:40 am
by AUbicycles
Thanks MichaelB for pinging me to report slowdown and downtime.
What happened...same old story, this time automated hack attacks that drain resources / capacity and puts it over the edge.
I have made some adjustments.. fingers crossed.
Thanks for your patience.
Re: Forum Downtime (Jan 29) Update
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:15 am
by redsonic
Much quicker now thanks Chris
Re: Forum Downtime (Jan 29) Update
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:12 am
by jasonc
thanks chris. working well now. nice and snappy
Re: Forum Downtime (Jan 29) Update
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:20 am
by MichaelB
Cheers for the quick response and fix.
Seems like a major PITA. Bloody technology !!!
Re: Forum Downtime (Jan 29) Update
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:51 pm
by DavidS
Yeah, it was slow for me the other day and I figured the site was being attacked.
What a pain this is.
Thanks for your efforts Chris.
DS
Re: Forum Downtime (Jan 29) Update
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:59 am
by AUbicycles
For interest - bots can be a problem,. These were typically from search engines or 'scrappers' and googlebot was generally good, bing was bad as was the Chinese tencent as they would not behave and overload the site.
Right now, I see over 50% of bots from AI scrappers like openai (chatgpt) and expect the other variations like Gemini and DeepDive to ramp up... if they misbehave when crawling that is bad. But to think that this AI is also fuelled by the human conversations... if you ask chatgpt about helmets... could be an interesting answer
Re: Forum Downtime (Jan 29) Update
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:21 pm
by jasonc
AUbicycles wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:59 am
if you ask chatgpt about helmets... could be an interesting answer
don't poke the virtual bear