Site performance is quite poor today

[mimico_polak]

Do i hear 6000?? anyone anyone



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Are we that popular? Probably cause we don’t talk motorcycles enough…

 

[Evoex]

@cutekill

It has been slow the last few days for sure.

 

[sburns]

Do i hear 6000?? anyone anyone



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Yess!

 

[Relax]

Interesting. The bots know they're being watched. They sent in another 1500 spys to see when we stop paying attention again.

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US government bots scraping the Politics Paddock for CBP to use against us when we try to cross...

 

[Mad Mike]

My guess is server and vendor config issues.

Server Robots.txt should only let in known good bots. Won’t stop maverick bots, but can help.

Zenforo Search should be disabled for all but regular members and higher.

Archive messages over 5 years old.

Enable Cloudfare free version, setup rules to limit bot traffic.

That’s a few hours of work that should change the site into a screamer.

 

[Relax]

Just please don't use Captcha where it asks you to select the parts of the pic that contains a motorcycle. Apparently I don't know what a motorcycle is because I've never passed the test. I've tried including the squares with the rider, the ones with a sliver of a tire, license plate, etc., but always fail and move on to identifying fire hydrants, cars or buses. I've also failed on traffic lights. And unluckily for me on Rogers XFinity, all those sites think my IP is a bot source so I have to confirm I'm human all the time.

 

[sburns]

Now this doesn't make sense, site is slow but not many guests.

 

[GreyGhost]

Now this doesn't make sense, site is slow but not many guests.
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I don't know how they behave. Presumably, bots can be configured to be friendly and slowly wander around or have no decency and try to load thousands of pages a second. A few bad actors could easily load the server more than thousands of snails.

 

[sburns]

I don't know how they behave. Presumably, bots can be configured to be friendly and slowly wander around or have no decency and try to load thousands of pages a second. A few bad actors could easily load the server more than thousands of snails.

Like a few chitheads spoiling it for everyone else.

Also, I'm sure all sites are dealing with these kinds of issues, I hate to say it but this site is the only one with regularly noticeable slowdowns.

 

[JC99]

Slow as molasses for the past few days for me.

Has ChatGPT sent their class over here for school to learn how to be better at AI?

 

[Gary]

If I had a dime every time this popped up today.........

 

[PrivatePilot]

My guess is server and vendor config issues.

Server Robots.txt should only let in known good bots. Won’t stop maverick bots, but can help.

Zenforo Search should be disabled for all but regular members and higher.

Archive messages over 5 years old.

Enable Cloudfare free version, setup rules to limit bot traffic.

That’s a few hours of work that should change the site into a screamer.

With Cutekills permission I can work on applying a good portion of this. I believe I have all the magic buttons still despite being AWOL for a year or so. Life changed pretty dramatically (understatement of the year) for me, long story I don't really want to get into here, but if there's something I can help with in the meantime I'm willing to poke into things as time allows.