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19th May 2025, 11:42 am
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Dekatron
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Oxford, UK.
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Forum software a bit sluggish?
Is it just me, or has the forum been sluggish to access for the last couple of days.
Nothing awful, but (up to) several seconds of waiting after clicking something, rather than the near-instantaneous response that we are normally used to. Same from my home and work PCs, and my mobile. Cheers, Nick. |
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19th May 2025, 12:46 pm
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Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Oxford, UK
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Re: Forum software a but sluggish?
It does seem a bit slow this morning. I'll alert Paul Stenning who has access to the relevant server logs and can raise a support ticket if necessary.
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19th May 2025, 12:49 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Croydon, Surrey, UK.
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Re: Forum software a but sluggish?
Yes it's a bit slow on the work computer as well and that is normally very fast.
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19th May 2025, 12:58 pm
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Nonode
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Nuneaton, Warwickshire, UK.
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Re: Forum software a but sluggish?
Thought it was just me. Yes definitely sluggish.
Aub
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19th May 2025, 1:02 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK.
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Re: Forum software a but sluggish?
It has got a bit slow for me too.
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19th May 2025, 1:05 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: West Cumbria (CA13), UK
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Re: Forum software a but sluggish?
Certainly spending longer than usual watching the dots chasing each other round the circle.
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19th May 2025, 1:09 pm
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Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Oxford, UK
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Re: Forum software a but sluggish?
OK folks, general problem confirmed and now being investigated.
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19th May 2025, 1:23 pm
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Hexode
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Sells Green, Wiltshire, UK.
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Re: Forum software a but sluggish?
It’s similar on a few other sites, probably down to AI bots harvesting info.
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19th May 2025, 2:05 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: W.Butterwick, near Doncaster UK.
Posts: 9,196
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Re: Forum software a but sluggish?
I was ready for reinstalling Win 10 ! Saved me a job thank you all.
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19th May 2025, 2:09 pm
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Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4, UK.
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Re: Forum software a bit sluggish?
This thread will be reopened once the moderators have something definite to report.
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20th May 2025, 1:41 pm
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Administrator
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Cardiff
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Re: Forum software a bit sluggish?
There is periodic high traffic level from guests with a wide range of IP addresses and user agents. This is typical behaviour from AI crawler bots; they masquerade as normal visitors and hammer websites quite hard (unlike Google and Bing etc who's bots have specific user agents and set IP address ranges, and behave responsibly).
Because there aren't defined IP address ranges or user agents it is not possible to block them effectively. I have blocked a few prevalent IP address ranges but they will just use others instead. Services like Cloudflare will block them but that's $250 per month for the plan that does so, which is not a viable option. We just need to tolerate it and let the bots move onto other websites. |
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