Site slow loading

[Steven]

Countermeasure is back in place now....

Looks like this will be intermittently necessary until I can put a better bot countermeasure in place and/or we move to our new server.

Very slow at the moment, would love to know WHY this is happening.

Disgruntled former user? Probably

A competitors site? Possibly

An errant url hack gone wrong? Unlikely

A member of staff at an F1 team? Unlikely

An F1 team? Highly unlikely

Who knows, but it's pretty persistent and therefore highly motivated. Which I would guess makes disgruntled former user as the most likely.

Running this sort thing costs money. So lots of motivation needed

[SiLo]

Countermeasure is back in place now....

Looks like this will be intermittently necessary until I can put a better bot countermeasure in place and/or we move to our new server.

Very slow at the moment, would love to know WHY this is happening.

Disgruntled former user? Probably

A competitors site? Possibly

An errant url hack gone wrong? Unlikely

A member of staff at an F1 team? Unlikely

An F1 team? Highly unlikely

Who knows, but it's pretty persistent and therefore highly motivated. Which I would guess makes disgruntled former user as the most likely.

Running this sort thing costs money. So lots of motivation needed

Do you run a donation page? I've used this site for years and never paid a penny.

[bauc]

Countermeasure is back in place now....

Looks like this will be intermittently necessary until I can put a better bot countermeasure in place and/or we move to our new server.

Very slow at the moment, would love to know WHY this is happening.

Disgruntled former user? Probably

A competitors site? Possibly

An errant url hack gone wrong? Unlikely

A member of staff at an F1 team? Unlikely

An F1 team? Highly unlikely

Who knows, but it's pretty persistent and therefore highly motivated. Which I would guess makes disgruntled former user as the most likely.

Running this sort thing costs money. So lots of motivation needed

Can we help in any way?

[Holm86]

Running slow again

[Greg Locock]

Seems much better today (29 Mar AEST)

[Holm86]

Running very slow for me again today

[Wouter]

Running very slow for me again today

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It takes 20 sec to load and then often 503 error over here since last evening.

[SiLo]

Running very slow for me again today

Same - do we need to bring in some outside assistance on this? It seems its now happening every week.

[Wouter]

Everything works fine. Thanx Steven.

I sent you a PM on Sunday, not about this subject, but could you read it please?

[Wouter]

Since yesterday the site/active topics/every choosen topic is slow loading again. Sometimes 6 - 7 sec and sometimes a bit longer.
Not as bad as it was a while ago. Am I the only one who has this?

Edit: also when I posted this .... 8 sec.

When I edited this I got this again after 12 sec: "502 Bad Gateway"

[chrisc90]

Had a couple bad gateway’s and also some pages very slow to load this morning AM.

[Wouter]

Everything is fine again since last evening.

[Mattchu]

Site seems to have gone to pot again, bloody bots, 6000 odd users!

[Wouter]

Here we go again. The site takes 20 - 25 sec to load. Occasionally immediately and than again 20 - 25 sec so not all the time.
This is not only the first time in the morning but every time I visite a new thread on my PC.
This morning I had 3 times "502 Bad Gateway". In between the loading was 1 minute fine and than it happend again the whole time.

Edit.
It was fine again in the evening.

[gandharva]

Site was completely offline today for some time.