Website incredibly slow?

[skywalk]

Hi, documentation page loads fast. Forum very slow?

[NicTheQuick]

On my side it also takes 10-30 seconds for a single page load.

[Mijikai]

Same here, very slow.

[STARGÅTE]

Same ............... here ................

[hoerbie]

Same here…
It looks to me like a stupid search engine bot or hack attack, when seeing on on the bottom of forums start page:

In total there are 2434 users online :: 6 registered, 1 hidden and 2427 guests
Most users ever online was 3409 on Fri Jan 31, 2025 7:07 pm

[skywalk]

Good catch!
Much better now.
Methinks Purebasic is on the AI training map!

[Quin]

Yup, pretty slow for me too. It only shows 25 users currently, but still lagging.

[skywalk]

Really slow again.
Maybe drop guest access? Must be registered to browse.
Or do honeypot like fossil uses?

[Taz]

Right now, loading times are sometimes up to 25 seconds...

[SPH]

+1

20 sec...+++

[Quin]

Seconding the suggestion of limiting guest access, load times are absolutely insane here too...

[Taz]

There are 2170 guest users online

60 seconds later:

There are 1953 guest users online

maybe a DoS attack?

[STARGÅTE]

In total there are 2374 users online :: 6 registered, 1 hidden and 2367 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)

... or chat bots looking for codes

[skywalk]

Almost certainly these are bots scraping for code. There are pros and cons. The more "learning" they achieve with PureBasic syntax, the better the AIs will perform in future requests for help. But, it is too draining now and should only be registered users. The valid AI bots will make formal requests for data. Then those users can be limited access with load sharing tools. Not sure what is under the hood for phpBB to minimize bot traffic?

[HeX0R]

out of curiosity, did that really start for all of you today?
Because I had that slowness yesterday also, but I was surfing with a VPN (for whatever reasons) and thought that might be the main problem.