Slowwwwww

[panky]

Is it just me or has the message board slowed down a lot over the last couple of days.

[geoberni]

Well I was away from home all weekend, so can't really comment on the past few days, but I agree it seems sluggish this morning and it was down for a short while last Wednesday or Thursday morning.

Todays it's taking around 10-12 seconds to switch between pages, which is a bit slower than usual.
I'm on full fibre and download speed is around 150Mb direct LAN connection to the router, not the WiFi.

And on trying to Submit this (around 11:14 UK time), the Server is Down.......
Came back up around 11:17, but still around 10 sec delay on responding...

[panky]

Similar issue to what I'm having, maybe a slightly longer delay.

[Bill_qaz]

Agreed been slow for a few days, with occasional non response message.

[KeithL]

It's been exceptionally slow all morning.

[panky]

Seems to be getting worse

[les]

Are these issues normal in the world of computers, this forum seems to have its share

[panky]

Smacks of a mass bot attack where the system is overwhelmed with multiple registration attempts. Happens quite a lot on the Mini Forum.

[geoberni]

Smacks of a mass bot attack where the system is overwhelmed with multiple registration attempts. Happens quite a lot on the Mini Forum.

You've hit the proverbial Nail on the Head.... Look at the number of Guests browsing.....

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[Chief]

15038 guests

Even worse (and slower) today.

I wonder if other sites don't get affected so much as a lot of them switched to Discourse forum software, I mean it shouldn't make a difference with a DDOS attack, but it does seem strange that the MMOC appears to get more of its' fair share (or is affected more) than other sites seem to be.

[simmitc]

It is a sustained attack by "bad actors" from foreign shores. We suffered this about a year ago and I put in some additional security features. They are back with a vengeance, no idea why, they are not logging in, just opening sessions and hitting our resources. I am looking at some some further measures, but it will take a few days as I have other things on the go as well. The people behind this type of attack are selfish small-minded [insert your choice of insult here]

[Sleeper]

( Putin ).

John ;-)

[simmitc]

Mostly China. I am working on it.

[panky]

Things seen to have speeded up a lot. thank you

Having to log on each day but I can cope with that

[geoberni]

Things seen to have speeded up a lot. thank you

Having to log on each day but I can cope with that

It's pretty quick right now, despite there being 4376 guests on the system.
Oddly enough, I've not had to Log In for about a week, even when it's come back from being totally overloaded and unavailable, I've remained logged in.....

[Bill_qaz]

Yes working great at the moment.
I very rarely have to log in on tablet using web page.
If I go in on phone I have to log i every time.
Weird as both samsung using android

[geoberni]

Been getting Error Messages again this morning and it's pretty slow when not in 'Error'.

Currently showing there are 3629 users online so not anywhere near the numbers we were getting

[svenedin]

I keep getting "internal server error 500"

Stephen

[Bill_qaz]

If i go to new posts it works.
If I go to board home an error message comes up?....

User browsing myself and 1 guest
But 3737 guest on home page