Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 21 Feb 2025, 18:33
The website was being upgraded but unfortunately the upgrade was designed by Dan Fallows. Inconvenience is regretted.
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Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 21 Feb 2025, 19:45
I had same issues as others but now it seems to be working fine. Thank you Steven and mods.
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 25 Feb 2025, 11:40
Here we go again. The site is again slow loading since this morning.
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 25 Feb 2025, 14:03
Appears to be happening again. The site is loading slowly with 502 bad gateways every now and then
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 25 Feb 2025, 15:24
Similar feeling of slow loading on Android mobile here.
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 25 Feb 2025, 18:23
Please fix this! Testing is tomorrow which is really the most important part of the season for the forum. I suspect whomever is doing this knows that...
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 25 Feb 2025, 19:45
Yeah, horribly slow.
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 25 Feb 2025, 19:49
Back to slow.
Sorry for all the trouble, Steven.
Sorry for all the trouble, Steven.
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 26 Feb 2025, 01:30
Yes, apologies.
Unfortunately I need to blame bots like those from OpenAI and Amazon who were hammering the site.
Both are now contained. I'll cross my fingers.
Unfortunately I need to blame bots like those from OpenAI and Amazon who were hammering the site.
Both are now contained. I'll cross my fingers.
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 26 Feb 2025, 01:32
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 26 Feb 2025, 05:13
Really OpenAI is using data from this site ? With all the bickering after a race , OpenAI will become a fanboy too
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 26 Feb 2025, 09:13
Steve a huge hog in all the world is the scrapping that ali servers do. I am in some technological forums where suddenly we were melting and the solution was after seeing the connections, to block this servers.
In specific we blocked this subnets
https://networksdb.io/ip-addresses-of/alibaba-cloud-llc
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 26 Feb 2025, 09:40
Well yesterday we had 120K page requests from GPTBot and Amazonbot together.
We got ample network bandwidth but all these pages need parsing and execution and the CPU is at its limit.
I'm looking into upgrade uptions but that's a bit of a long process involving testing etc, so not for tomorrow.
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 26 Feb 2025, 12:50
Just block all the crawlers mate except the ones that are crucial.Steven wrote: ↑26 Feb 2025, 09:40Well yesterday we had 120K page requests from GPTBot and Amazonbot together.
We got ample network bandwidth but all these pages need parsing and execution and the CPU is at its limit.
I'm looking into upgrade uptions but that's a bit of a long process involving testing etc, so not for tomorrow.
Re: Site slow loading
Posted: 26 Feb 2025, 15:29
Bloody AI bots 