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Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by joedf » 05 Feb 2021, 09:17

Thanks just me, there is a pattern.

Status update.
T1 = Tor. It was ~500k to ~150k. Then I decided to block T1 completely, and now it's a 1m+ requests... this seems like a new attack vector. :think:

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T1                   1,014,484
United States        538,612
Germany              288,547
United Kingdom       152,635
Russian Federation   121,986

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by just me » 04 Feb 2021, 11:23

Again (same time as 2 days ago).

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by joedf » 02 Feb 2021, 17:52

I just added a cloudflare firewall to block all T1 (tor) connections. These lag spikes seem be from unusually high number of requests at certain times of the day. :think:
For the moment, I simply monitor the graphs.

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by just me » 02 Feb 2021, 11:33

The forum is very slow again. Is anyone actively working on the issue?

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by PuzzledGreatly » 31 Jan 2021, 16:48

Very slow again 6:47 am (Japan time).

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by gregster » 30 Jan 2021, 21:24

I seem to see more problems in the late evening and (mid-)night hours (middle european time), like still now, than during the day.

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by joedf » 30 Jan 2021, 21:01

Yes, I'm not sure why... We reduced it but seems to still be happening every so often... :think:

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by iseahound » 30 Jan 2021, 20:55

Still bad with 522 errors from cloudflare.

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by PuzzledGreatly » 26 Jan 2021, 18:19

The forum loaded smoothly this morning. Thanks for the hard work looking after it.

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by joedf » 26 Jan 2021, 11:22

we still have some intermittent spikes... :think:

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by joedf » 26 Jan 2021, 09:18

@boiler thanks, I've turned off the Under Attack mode. :+1:

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by kczx3 » 26 Jan 2021, 08:47

gregster wrote: ↑
25 Jan 2021, 18:31
 ...I am probably lucky, I haven't had to solve a captcha once ...
Same here. I've literally never had to do Captcha ever on this site...

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by lmstearn » 26 Jan 2021, 08:09

Hopefully, might the issue apply to other areas?
Related? This now pops up in Chrome for AHK pages at base index or root, also search
Confirm Form Submission:
The page that you're looking for used information that you entered. Returning to that page might cause any action you took to be repeated. Do you want to continue?
Any subforum pages don't get it. Happens for some other sites, too.

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by boiler » 25 Jan 2021, 21:49

joedf wrote: ↑
25 Jan 2021, 18:04
 Looks like we might be impacted by this: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/klwg8kjjr8hg
This issue appears to now be resolved. Hopefully, this means the cloudflare settings can be returned to their previous levels.

Thanks for your efforts, as always. :salute:

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by joedf » 25 Jan 2021, 19:11

We are suspiciously getting a lot of requests from Tor... :think:

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by SOTE » 25 Jan 2021, 18:40

gregster wrote: ↑
25 Jan 2021, 18:33
SOTE wrote: ↑
25 Jan 2021, 18:21
PuzzledGreatly wrote: ↑
25 Jan 2021, 16:55
 Whenever I have problems visiting sites it always seems to be related to cloudflare.
I've noticed that too.
It could also mean that cloudflare is working and that otherwise the server/website might have crashed already without it.
Maybe. But also seeing 522 errors, "...indicates that Cloudflare is unable to reach the origin web server and the request times out..." When webservers are behind Cloudflare, these connection errors seem more likely.

However, understand that you guys are in a plus versus minus situation and are trying to troubleshoot what's going on.

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by gregster » 25 Jan 2021, 18:33

SOTE wrote: ↑
25 Jan 2021, 18:21
PuzzledGreatly wrote: ↑
25 Jan 2021, 16:55
 Whenever I have problems visiting sites it always seems to be related to cloudflare.
I've noticed that too.
It could also mean that cloudflare is actually working and that otherwise the server/website might have crashed already without it, under an attack.

It's not that cloudflare is perfect, but the alternatives don't look very attractive. Especially, as long as the actual problem is not reliably identified yet.

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by gregster » 25 Jan 2021, 18:31

For me, it working better now. I don't get timeouts anymore, although the forum is certainly not very fast. But I can work with it.

On the other hand, cloudflare is definitely differentiating between IPs and other factors. So, people might be affected by it in different amounts.

I am probably lucky, I haven't had to solve a captcha once and I only see the waiting page after some inactivity. But skipping cloudflare wouldn't be a good idea, imho. If they have a temporary problem, what should we do? Expose us completely? During a supposed attack?

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by Scr1pter » 25 Jan 2021, 18:26

Yes, it is very slow for me as well.

Cheers!

Re: Forums Slow to load

Post by SOTE » 25 Jan 2021, 18:21

Are you guys sure the previous slowness and loading problems have nothing to do with Cloudflare?

Because right now, I guess because of the "Under Attack Mode" getting the AutoHotkey website is really troublesome. Cloudflare is demanding cookies and JavaScript, while taking these long periods of time to analyze. Then comes the barrage of Captcha, sometimes over and over. After going through all that, the AutoHotkey website is still loading pages slowly. Wondering if there was something going on with Cloudflare in the first place.
PuzzledGreatly wrote: ↑
25 Jan 2021, 16:55
 Whenever I have problems visiting sites it always seems to be related to cloudflare.
I've noticed that too.

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