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Old 04-24-2026, 07:02 AM   #76
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People may have seen more site slowness earlier today.

Alex tells me that there were around 1 million requests a day to the registration page by AI bots.

Most have now been blocked, so things should be OK again until the next time.
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Old 04-24-2026, 03:14 PM   #77
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WOW! That is a lot of spam to hit the system.
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Old 05-04-2026, 04:39 PM   #78
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The site just timed out.

One idea I just came up with it that besides IP block banning, why not limit the number of guests?
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Old 05-05-2026, 02:59 AM   #79
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The site just timed out.

One idea I just came up with it that besides IP block banning, why not limit the number of guests?
DDOS doesn't rely on the connections actually succeeding and working as guests. It's the sheer volume of requests to the server that's the problem.
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DDOS doesn't rely on the connections actually succeeding and working as guests. It's the sheer volume of requests to the server that's the problem.
I'm not saying it's a DDOS. It could just be the server being overloaded with too many guests.
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Old 05-16-2026, 10:06 PM   #81
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Currently, I'm seeing about 95K guests and a mix of 504 Gateway timeouts and 502 Bad Gateway error messages.
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Old 05-16-2026, 10:07 PM   #82
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Currently, I'm seeing about 95K guests and a mix of 504 Gateway timeouts and 502 Bad Gateway error messages. The site is making me think about molasses flowing uphill on a cold January day in Tuktoyaktuk.

Edit: After tossing several database errors, all seems to be working okay now.
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Old 05-16-2026, 11:32 PM   #83
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Currently, I'm seeing about 95K guests and a mix of 504 Gateway timeouts and 502 Bad Gateway error messages.
Same. I was hoping this was temporary due to some high demand spike, as happened other times. Now it's been like at least 16 hours I'm getting the errors.

I see the 504 error more often. Actually I'm not sure I got the 502.
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Old 05-17-2026, 04:28 AM   #84
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It does look like there's another DDOS attack.
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Old 05-17-2026, 04:42 AM   #85
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It does look like there's another DDOS attack.
Alex confirms that there is an attack. He has been working on mitigating this attack (on a Sunday morning!), and hopes to have brought it under control soon.
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The site is once again running quite slow. I think it is most likely another DDOS.
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