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there were around 3600 guests online the other day. It's somewhat slow today as well 2856 online.

Not sure how it behaves on your side, but if we replace "somewhat" with "incredible", then we are at the same level.

Yes... INCREDIBLY ... slow

It's also forgetting who I am and making me log in again every few sessions.

I had to log back in a couple of times

No, this started for me when I made the post.
Fred also found aggressive bots in April 2024.

Purebasic has been discovered, so this is not going away.

In total there are 3398 users online :: 7 registered, 0 hidden and 3391 guests

3391 guests, still very slow.

In total there are 3806 users online :: 9 registered, 1 hidden and 3796 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 3883 on Thu Feb 13, 2025 2:07 am

It'a still going up. I'm guessing AI mining.

I've noticed this over the last couple of weeks. Every time the guest numbers are up above 2500.

@Fred, is there a way to limit the number of concurrent guest logins?

Demivec wrote: Thu Feb 13, 2025 9:13 am It'a still going up. I'm guessing AI mining.

If that is true, we're to blame. As more and more of us - me including - are testing AIs to get PureBasic ideas done, the AIs are buckling up to get smarter in this respect It might be a good thing in the end...

36 secondes !!

Maybe it's a good idea to use cloudflare on this site? I thing the free license is more than enough.

HeX0R wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 11:10 pm out of curiosity, did that really start for all of you today?

The problem has occurred sporadically for a few days.

But now it's almost a permanent condition.
Currently 10-15 seconds loading time.

Well, first Fred has to identify the problem. Is it a bot that's stuck somewhere, or an attack?

Cloudflare is perhaps too overkill (and annoying), in my opinion it should be the last solution.

• Is a simple /Disallow in the "robots.txt" enough?
• or a simple rule in the ".htaccess" file?
• or maybe even just a setting / mod from the forum.
• Maybe it's just a bug in the forum, and an upgrade to a current version is enough?
• Or does the host have a problem?

16 second here to refresh this page (tried loged, anonymous or In private mode).

Edit: 34 seconds to send this message

Horrible slow for me, too

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