Please fix this annoyingly slow forum

[NicTheQuick]

Hi Fred,

the whole day now the forums are very very unresponsive and I really don't like to surf it like that.

I just tested a simple curl to the main page and it took more than 20 seconds as an anonymous user to load just the index:

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$ time curl https://www.purebasic.fr/english/index.php > /dev/null
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 63428    0 63428    0     0   2816      0 --:--:--  0:00:22 --:--:-- 14517

real	0m22,529s
user	0m0,023s
sys	0m0,007s

Isn't there anything you can do about that? What's keeping the server so slow?

[Fred]

Rogue AI crawling can take down any website, nothing we can do about it. Moving to cloudflare protection can also have its own issues..

[NicTheQuick]

Rogue AI crawling can take down any website, nothing we can do about it. Moving to cloudflare protection can also have its own issues.

I just searched around a bit and the best solution I found was indeed the Cloudflare Protection which can block these kinds of attacks and still does not cost any money. What issues does that protection have?

[jack]

this mining of the AI bots could potentially promote PureBasic and hindering the bots could potentially have a negative impact

[NicTheQuick]

this mining of the AI bots could potentially promote PureBasic and hindering the bots could potentially have a negative impact

I don't think so. The good AI bots don't take down a whole website until it's nearly unusable. I don't think that Gemini, ChatGPT or Perplexity would do that. It's only the aggressive bots that need to be filtered out.