Forum has been very slow 2 days now...

[mclane]

A forum mainly for bots

[towforce]

The forum's poor responsiveness has made me very selective about which threads I open, so it's going down on my gratitude list!

[Paloma]

Should it go on like this? A few hours fast, then a few days slow. Can nothing be done about it?

[lucametehau]

Sorry guys, my bad, it was meant to be 400 guests not 4000...

[Ras]

Moderation: Removed posts that were not in line with the charter (2. Are not abusive in nature, 3. Do not contain personal and/or libelous attacks on others, 6. Are not bullying, or vicarious bullying).

[Bo Persson]

Right now it is just

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and still slow. You would expect a webserver to be able to handle 70 users.

[Eelco de Groot]

The Board Index has 3395 guests so.. It works better with Cloudflare (says Srdja) but was not needed I think for some time? I'm not sure where the server resides but in the past they just waited for the moderator/administrator to go on holiday or weekend. Before the larger present FG I mean. Nothing to be done right now I think if that''s the case.

[Jouni]

Firefox says 3288 guests. But shouldn't server handle this number easily? Not? Some forums have 10000 - 100000 REAL users simultaneously.

[towforce]

Right now it is just

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and still slow. You would expect a webserver to be able to handle 70 users.

These are not static web pages being served from server cache: the pages are constructed from data stored in a MySQL database. Big databases that can handle large numbers of simultaneous queries and updates tend to have lots of RAM and a kickass CPU.

[smatovic]

One would need to analyze the web-server logs to figure what is going on. If DOS, DDOS, crawler/scraper, valid user requests.

There are several web-server modules and Linux server configurations which can be tuned more aggressively, but I would prefer to not discuss certain TC security measurements in the public.

I myself have no time in spare to engage atm in TC server operations and solve this case.

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Srdja