Site issues today

[bkreid]

I am a server and system software person; I don't know anything about VBulletin. But unless guest users are important, I think that configuring VBulletin to reject guest user connection attempts would be a lasting solution to the performance problems. I figure that sooner or later Tom or QT will read this thread. I think that both of them understand VBulletin.

[Oren Grad]

I am a server and system software person; I don't know anything about VBulletin. But unless guest users are important, I think that configuring VBulletin to reject guest user connection attempts would be a lasting solution to the performance problems. I figure that sooner or later Tom or QT will read this thread. I think that both of them understand VBulletin.

Brian - thanks for weighing in. We have an ongoing thread in the private Moderators subforum where we have been working through diagnostic questions and possible remedial actions.

[paulbarden]

Brian - thanks for weighing in. We have an ongoing thread in the private Moderators subforum where we have been working through diagnostic questions and possible remedial actions.

I, for one, would be fine with rejecting guest user connections.

[jnantz]

The largeformatphotography.info server has been experiencing a low-level DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service). I was joking with Tom about it and suggested that maybe the attack was coming from the Minox Users Forum. If there is such a thing.

I think that be "the sub club".

I, for one, would be fine with rejecting guest user connections.

+1

[bkreid]

Right now (9:40pm US Eastern time) there are almost 20,000 guest users connected, and as a result the server is very slow.

[jnantz]

I just heard today that Kodak sales were up, they aren't kidding !

[Tom Westbrook]

Thanks Brian. Mostly bots, I'd guess. I don't think it's possible to block each subnet they are coming from. I block the egregious ones, but it's a losing battle.

Do you know anything about the Cloudfare free version? Seems to have DDOS mitigation but would to proxy all the DNS queries (at a minimum) to their DNS servers.

[bkreid]

Entirely bots.
I’ve used Cloudflare’s commercial services and they wouldn’t offer much protection against this kind of attack. I don’t know a thing about their free version. I know who to ask, though.