Slow speed

No Quarter

I'm still finding it pretty slow, could the bots be blocked if they are still smashing us?

Duluth

Yeah it’s still slow. Better than this morning but not back to normal

There’s a couple of things I can try tomorrow

nzzp

@No-Quarter

Yeah it’s still slow. Better than this morning but not back to normal

There’s a couple of things I can try tomorrow

if it doesn't speed up, I'll actually have to do some work. Good god man, think of the consequences!

JK

Looks like the handbrake is still on.

Higgins

I can't get it to load on Edge and Chrome but no such difficulties on Avast and Firefox.

Duluth

Bot traffic might not be the cause (it's been very high since Jan)

CPU usage is very high. However there's been no code changes for ages.

I've disabled a few plugins which may help. That means that some of the embeds will stop working

I notice on the github page that one of the recent issues fixed was a mem leak. So it's worth patching everything to the latest level

I do prefer doing that on Mon or Tues when there is no sport on.

Duluth

Ok, turned off some more things to free up CPU. A couple of info pages (teamsheets etc) will be empty now

JK

Does seem a bit quicker now

Duluth

@JK said in Slow speed:

Does seem a bit quicker now

Yeah it's better but still not back to normal

This will have to do until after the weekend. There's some larger changes I'll try next week

No Quarter

Thanks @Duluth we all appreciate it

pakman

Will the Ferner with ‘Excess Load’ please pull his finger out?

Machpants

Seems better this morning

Duluth

A quick update. There is a CPU issue and it's likely caused by the bot traffic. The regular traffic also has an influence.

So that's why the forum was mostly ok this morning but very slow on Saturday evening

Later today there will be an outage. I'll post a time up later. This may or may not help.. it's more of a prerequisite for a change that we'll apply tomorrow.

The down time today and tomorrow will be ~1 hour each

Kirwan

Modern internet landscape is going to be fun with these fucking AI startups stealing data from where ever they can to train models.

nzzp

@Kirwan said in Slow speed:

Modern internet landscape is going to be fun with these fucking AI startups stealing data from where ever they can to train models.

It's extraordinary right - the internet is an enormous data replication machine, and some people start using that data!

Trying to protect data is nigh on impossible. Good luck to the owners.

Also, sorry for the thread derailment - consider splitting off; keen for a wider discussion on some of this

Duluth

@Kirwan said in Slow speed:

Modern internet landscape is going to be fun with these fucking AI startups stealing data from where ever they can to train models.

I've hidden some content from non logged in users. I can see from the logs the bots aren't scraping for rugby..

Machpants

@Duluth said in Slow speed:

@Kirwan said in Slow speed:

Modern internet landscape is going to be fun with these fucking AI startups stealing data from where ever they can to train models.

I've hidden some content from non logged in users. I can see from the logs the bots aren't scraping for rugby..

They're after hot polish chicks to apply nude fakes to, the dastardly swine!

NTA

The suggestions my provider had to update .htaccess seems to have helped with their resource alerts. Not sure if that would help with the bot situation here

Duluth

@NTA

Thanks. We use nginx so it's slightly different. We will be making changes in that area tomorrow though

No Quarter

Is there any way of blocking the bots? A WAF or something? Or too costly?

(edit - I am sure you have already thought of this)

The Silver Fern

Slow speed