Is it just me or has this site gotten really slow?

[DNSB]

When doing a trace route while having issues, they all seem to die at core??.fsn1.hetzner.com (?? has varied from 21-24) and each instance has multiple IP addresses shown for the name when I did reverse DNS lookups. I suspect that someone is DDoSing Hetzner's servers either intentionally or too many AI bots crawling their servers.

[Cactus Chef]

Site was okay yesterday (Sunday) at about 60k users. This morning it's fine, and I only see 6k.

Maybe the AI bots are finally done feeding and will leave us alone.

[ratinox]

Originally Posted by DNSB

When doing a trace route while having issues, they all seem to die at core??.fsn1.hetzner.com (?? has varied from 21-24) and each instance has multiple IP addresses shown for the name when I did reverse DNS lookups. I suspect that someone is DDoSing Hetzner's servers either intentionally or too many AI bots crawling their servers.

traceroute/tracepath aren't terribly useful across the wider Internet. Too many providers simply drop trace packets.

[DNSB]

In the case of MobileRead, I have tracerouted it many times and pretty much know what to expect. Other sites, I have notes about where the traceroute dies.

[graycyn]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

It often takes several seconds to load a page. Tried with three different browsers, logged in and not.

This is a recent change, a few days, I think.

Over the weekend, I lost access from my PC ENTIRELY! Used Chrome, Firefox, Brave browsers, and could not load the site AT ALL. Updated browsers, disabled extensions, rebooted computer, flushed DNS, not one thing worked.

Tried from my iPad, via Tapatalk app, Safari, and my other three browsers, no luck with that either. Searching showed the site was not down, and I could access via 5G data from my phone, but not from our WiFi. Hubby also had a try on my reques

This morning, zippo. Just now I tried again, and I'm seeing the site in Tapatalk on my iPad.

Just hope this happy state of affairs lasts. It's not a happy thing to lose access! I was wanting to update a Sigil plugin.


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[WiseBooksIntl]

For the past 3+ days, I was unable to access it. I tried multiple solutions on my end like switching browsers, changing DNS, using VPNs, even flushing DNS cache but nothing worked.

I assumed the issue was on my side, but surprisingly, everything started working fine today without any changes.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by WiseBooksIntl

For the past 3+ days, I was unable to access it. I tried multiple solutions on my end like switching browsers, changing DNS, using VPNs, even flushing DNS cache but nothing worked.

I assumed the issue was on my side, but surprisingly, everything started working fine today without any changes.

MobileRead was under a DDOS attack, and the blocking of the attack IP addresses unfortunately also blocked some legitimate IP addresses too. Now fixed.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by graycyn

Over the weekend, I lost access from my PC ENTIRELY! Used Chrome, Firefox, Brave browsers, and could not load the site AT ALL. Updated browsers, disabled extensions, rebooted computer, flushed DNS, not one thing worked.

Tried from my iPad, via Tapatalk app, Safari, and my other three browsers, no luck with that either. Searching showed the site was not down, and I could access via 5G data from my phone, but not from our WiFi. Hubby also had a try on my reques

This morning, zippo. Just now I tried again, and I'm seeing the site in Tapatalk on my iPad.

Just hope this happy state of affairs lasts. It's not a happy thing to lose access! I was wanting to update a Sigil plugin.


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You got caught in the IP bans because of the DDoS. That's since been fixed. That's why your ISP failed and your cell service worked. Different IP.

[JSWolf]

11708 guests. This is where the site can start to get slow. It's acting slowish. it's not unusable, but it's get it's sputtering here and there.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

11708 guests. This is where the site can start to get slow. It's acting slowish. it's not unusable, but it's get it's sputtering here and there.

Not even close, Jon. The guest users during the DDOS attack were often in excess of 120,000. That's 10 times 12,000.

If you're experiencing sputtering, it's not due to 12,000 guests accessing the site.