For the last few weeks, the Jaxson has been very slow. Slow on initial load, slow to respond to 'post' or 'reply' actions. I know my Xfinity is slow, but the Jaxson's response is much slower than anything else. Are there server or database issues?
There were some hung processes on the server. It's been rebooted and hopefully will be ok now.
I noticed too, but assumed it was just Stephen in the database again editing comments critical of his moderation style into suggestions that a $1.50 drip coffee should entitle you to free refills and complimentary WiFi for life at Three Layers.
Quote from: Ken_FSU on February 11, 2025, 01:59:34 PM
I noticed too, but assumed it was just Stephen in the database again editing comments critical of his moderation style into suggestions that a $1.50 drip coffee should entitle you to free refills and complimentary WiFi for life at Three Layers.
OK, I really did LOL on this!
Quote from: Ken_FSU on February 11, 2025, 01:59:34 PM
I noticed too, but assumed it was just Stephen in the database again editing comments critical of his moderation style into suggestions that a $1.50 drip coffee should entitle you to free refills and complimentary WiFi for life at Three Layers.
Lol
The ssssllllloooooowwwwwws are back. 11 PM Tuesday (actually noticed earlier tonight, waited to see if it was a momentary thing)
I've restricted the forum to members only for now. There is just too much bot traffic hitting it. If you notice the guest user count is almost 15k over the past 30 minutes.
Thanks. This loaded immediately.
Quote from: Lunican on February 12, 2025, 09:48:14 AM
I've restricted the forum to members only for now. There is just too much bot traffic hitting it. If you notice the guest user count is almost 15k over the past 30 minutes.
I noticed that as well... cutting them off for a bit may help... but still seeing 753 "guests "
They all heard about the Starbucks coming to Laura St.
Quote from: acme54321 on February 12, 2025, 05:20:08 PM
They all heard about the Starbucks coming to Laura St.
OMG... ;D ;D ;D Exactly what I was thinking! But seriously...
There are over 7900 "guests " logged in currently... >:(
Still verrryyy sloooowww... took two tries to post this
Quote from: BridgeTroll on February 13, 2025, 02:35:29 PM
Still verrryyy sloooowww... took two tries to post this
China must be waking up. Unfortunately, the bots are really hammering us. We may have to go back to making it member-only accessible. That worked last night, but obviously you have to be logged in to view (I'm never logged in from my phone, for example). There's been a bump in (seemingly legitimate) new users signing up as a result, so that's a perk of the member-only option.
I just moved it back to member only. Working on another solution but it's not ready yet.
Quote from: Lunican on February 13, 2025, 02:51:40 PM
I just moved it back to member only. Working on another solution but it's not ready yet.
Does member only include guests? Over 9000 guests right now...
Users Online
9471 Guests, 8 Users
Users active in past 30 minutes:
BridgeTroll, tree-up, Joey Mackey, Steve, civil42806, marcuscnelson, Tacachale, Lunican
Most Online Today: 10461. Most Online Ever: 31652 (January 22, 2025, 12:23:40 PM)
Logged in users can see the forum and visitors not logged in just see a login screen. This reduces the load as it doesn't have to call the database.
site has been far more responsive lately. this is fascinating to me, bot traffic is so odd... why would 35k bots need to access a city-specific forum?
Quote from: jax_hwy_engineer on February 14, 2025, 08:19:29 AM
site has been far more responsive lately. this is fascinating to me, bot traffic is so odd... why would 35k bots need to access a city-specific forum?
Maybe it's DOGE looking for fraud and waste?!? :o ;)
Quote from: Charles Hunter on February 14, 2025, 10:29:47 AM
Quote from: jax_hwy_engineer on February 14, 2025, 08:19:29 AM
site has been far more responsive lately. this is fascinating to me, bot traffic is so odd... why would 35k bots need to access a city-specific forum?
Maybe it's DOGE looking for fraud and waste?!? :o ;)
Well, if they stumbled onto the U2C thread, they found it!
Quote from: jaxoNOLE on February 14, 2025, 10:46:03 AM
Quote from: Charles Hunter on February 14, 2025, 10:29:47 AM
Quote from: jax_hwy_engineer on February 14, 2025, 08:19:29 AM
site has been far more responsive lately. this is fascinating to me, bot traffic is so odd... why would 35k bots need to access a city-specific forum?
Maybe it's DOGE looking for fraud and waste?!? :o ;)
Well, if they stumbled onto the U2C thread, they found it!
that's the one thing I wish DOGE would shut down. Maybe we could weaponize Elon's insecurities by saying the U2C is cooler and better than CyberTaxi to make him jealous and shut U2C down out of spite
Appreciate the work troubleshooting this.
I wonder how much of it is AI scrapers/LLMs?
Good list here of potential crawlers to try blocking:
https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
The board is getting The Slows again
Quote from: Charles Hunter on March 15, 2025, 09:12:57 AM
The board is getting The Slows again
It's happening again.
Same here, for at least a couple of days
Thank you, oh great gurus of the page ... it is all zoomy now.
... annnnnd ... back to sluggish
Are we having a Bot invasion?
Apparently, 10,700+ guests on currently. Seems excessive.
On the topic, how is this forum funded? Is it free to operate, or can we crowdfund more RAM? lol
Yeah, we're going to have to figure something out. We fund it out of pocket because there's a decade plus worth of good information on the forums that should always be free, accessible and available to the public.
Is there some way members/readers can contribute? Not just to make it faster, but to offload some of the upkeep from y'all! I agree that this forum is important to keep up indefinitely.
The forum went online June 2, 2007!
Molasses in February in Greenland. It's got the slows again.
I second urban_'s suggestion - is there some way we can help with the financial side, and upgrade the servers (and maybe get a decent 'search' feature)?
Quote from: Lunican on June 13, 2025, 12:59:11 PM
The forum went online June 2, 2007!
Time certainly flies... damn :) 8)
Quote from: Charles Hunter on July 22, 2025, 09:22:29 PM
I second urban_'s suggestion - is there some way we can help with the financial side, and upgrade the servers (and maybe get a decent 'search' feature)?
A search feature would be dope too!
It's got the sssslllloooowwwwwwssssss again.
Maybe the Site Guru who fixes this recurring problem could put a reminder to wave their magic wand every week or so?
I wonder if it would be possible to put the site behind Cloudflare or something similar? Likely that AI bots, which have taken over the internet, are crawling the site and ignoring the robots.txt as they're known to do. Real sick of AI ruining things...
^ Trying to avoid it but may have to use Cloudflare turnstile.
Quote from: Lunican on August 05, 2025, 10:52:09 PM
^ Trying to avoid it but may have to use Cloudflare turnstile.
Would this affect the user experience of the intended users?
If the trepidation related to cost? Remember there are multiple offers on the table (well, the forum) to assist.
No it's not cost. It will likely make things worse for regular users and I need to find time to do it.
Worse in what way?
And I realize this ain't your full-time job, so whatever you can do is appreciated.
I think the site had its Thanksgiving Turkey a day early - it's got a bad case of the sllllooowwwwwzzzzz
It's happening again. Been slow all weekend.