Slow forum

Post by **joedf** » 02 Oct 2024, 08:52

Yes, if you look here. It seems we have a lot of bots...

Post by **Descolada** » 02 Oct 2024, 01:55

@joedf the forums are snappy again after your tweaks, but I would guess something is still going on as the guest visitor number hovers around 1000. For reference AHKs Reddit page has 23 users online, and Python subreddit has 86.

Post by **joedf** » 01 Oct 2024, 11:31

Our caching ratio is a bit low for my taste so I've tweaked those a bit. I've set the security level to High instead of under attack. Let's see how that goes for a bit.

EDIT (4PM EST): I think we're good now.

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Post by **SKAN** » 01 Oct 2024, 09:15

@joedf

Post by **joedf** » 01 Oct 2024, 09:13

Yes, I think it could be some kind of dos attack or just a sudden burst of traffic...

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I've turned on Under Attack mode for now and ow it's very fast for me... I will try to have a look later.

Post by **lmstearn** » 01 Oct 2024, 05:13

All of a sudden it's this:

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Also got an SSL handshake failed Error code 525
The statistics are fine:

Total posts 523765 • Total topics 92978 • Total members 72433

Post by **Descolada** » 01 Oct 2024, 04:22

Yes, super slow again. I noticed that at the same time the user count on the main page is slowly increasing:

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It seems quite suspicious, there's no way we have so many real visitors. Are we being DDOS-d? Or is there some kind of problem with the server not letting go of logins and querying them for something over and over again?

Post by **SKAN** » 01 Oct 2024, 03:30

just me wrote: ↑
01 Oct 2024, 03:27
forum suddenly became nearly unusable.

+1

Post by **just me** » 01 Oct 2024, 03:27

Hello, I had about half an hour with good response times today. Then the forum suddenly became nearly unusable. That's very annoying.
Maybe we need professional help to analyze the problem?

Post by **tank** » 30 Sep 2024, 10:20

yea definitely lasting better performance

Post by **joedf** » 26 Sep 2024, 07:41

Okay, I've turned it off. Hopefully, things are still relatively smooth.

Post by **Descolada** » 26 Sep 2024, 03:55

@joedf the forums have been fast after the DB CPU upgrade, perhaps it's time to turn off Cloudflare "under attack" mode? It's preventing programmatic access to the page (eg querying version.txt), and one Linux user reported not being able to access the forums because of it.

Post by **kunkel321** » 23 Sep 2024, 15:20

Good so far here. Thanks Fellas.

Post by **tank** » 23 Sep 2024, 14:06

I have upgradedn the db cpu a level lets see how things go

Post by **SKAN** » 22 Sep 2024, 13:26

joedf wrote: ↑
22 Sep 2024, 10:38
it's very fast for me.

For me too

Post by **joedf** » 22 Sep 2024, 10:38

I've rebooted the DB server yet again. I think we may need to upgrade our db server.

I've also turned on Under Attack mode, and it's very fast for me.

Post by **kunkel321** » 22 Sep 2024, 08:39

Super slow in the Seattle area. That has been the case periodically for several weeks.

Post by **joedf** » 03 Sep 2024, 11:14

Yes it was for me, then it went completely down. I did and reboot and notified tank. maybe ~1hr later, the forum is back up.

Post by **kczx3** » 03 Sep 2024, 08:39

Not just you

Post by **RussF** » 03 Sep 2024, 08:17

Is it just me or is the forum really slow this morning?

Russ

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