Website incredibly slow?

[Quin]

I would definitely recommend against cloudflare, especially in under-attack mode. It breaks text-based web browsers many blind users like myself use and is just a pain. They're fine for domains, but not much else.
Also still incredibly laggy here too

[skywalk]

Can you throttle guest accounts?

[Taz]

There is a lot of simultaneous requests coming from a lot of IP, so nothing we can really do about it, wait'n'see

This is a DDoS attack, and hoping that it will stop on its own is naive, it will probably get worse. cloudflare is an option.

Talk to your host about options.
If you do nothing, you will only have angry members, and it will damage your business!
At some point, your host will simply take the site down if the server is overloaded due to your homepage!

None of us wants that.

[PBJim]

This is a DDoS attack, and hoping that it will stop on its own is naive, it will probably get worse. cloudflare is an option.
Talk to your host about options. If you do nothing, you will only have angry members, and it will damage your business! At some point, your host will simply take the site down if the server is overloaded due to your homepage!

We have a mansplainer with us. Thank you Taz

As someone else has mentioned, cloudflair can be very annoying and a timewaster. When we open a page and see it's sluggish icon begin to fire up, followed by a contrived message to say "checking your security", many of us would rather just close the site — Or even worse, it treats us like children, requesting us to click on all the buses or bicycles.

Perhaps its cloudflair doing the DDoS attacks, to drive up their sales.

[NicTheQuick]

One idea would also be to only allow certain IP ranges from known search engine bots to read the forum anonymously. All other IP addresses can only access the login page and only if logged in can read everything.

Here is a list of some of these IP addresses: https://www.iplists.com/
Maybe there are better lists out there.

[Taz]

We have a mansplainer with us. Thank you Taz

WTF, i just wanted to help in detail, not to suggest that anyone is stupid.

Fred's statement "wait and see":
I just wanted to point out the possible consequences.
It has happened to me that a host simply took the website offline. And then you get a shock when the whole website is suddenly gone. Not a nice feeling...
That's why I wrote that he could ask his host about options.

I don't think it's a good idea to do "nothing"

As someone else has mentioned, cloudflair can be very annoying and a timewaster. When we open a page and see it's sluggish icon begin to fire up, followed by a contrived message to say "checking your security"...

I also wrote that Cloudfare should be the last solution!

...many of us would rather just close the site...

I don't believe that, and I don't think you are in a position to make that claim.
The forum is a very important reference tool for PureBasic, and as far as I know, the only one in the German/English area.

Perhaps its cloudflair doing the DDoS attacks, to drive up their sales.

Sure, and the earth is flat...


PS: English is not my native language, please note that.

[SPH]

At the time of writing this message, the site responds immediately (<1 sec)

[SPH]

Well, it's slow again...

[spikey]

This is a DDoS attack.

There is a lot of simultaneous requests coming from a lot of IP, so nothing we can really do about it, wait'n'see

At this point in time my concern would be that this was a distributed vulnerability probe attack with a view to a cyber ransom demand after encrypting/corrupting/deleting the database.

I'd be thinking about a test restore from backup offline somewhere to make sure there's a viable one around. There's an awful lot of intellectual property in this database!

[Fred]

We backup the whole DB everyday so it shouldn't be an issue

[AndyMK]

Super slow today

[ozzie]

Forum very slow. Some days recently I've just given up. Just took 20 seconds to display a selected topic.

[idle]

Forum very slow. Some days recently I've just given up.

Hopefully Fred can find a way to limit the requests or something.

[skywalk]

So Slow. And I see > 20 guests. 33 now.

[STARGÅTE]

In total there are 3279 users online

I see more guests, but yes, it's again slow.