Super slooooooooooowwwww site

[Jayrcee]

I've been getting really slow loading times just in the past few days.

[privacy_user_mkv]

I also noticed the site being unresponsive. I actually work in tech on large websites. Maybe I could help!

[Woodstock]

Possibly, but...

Part of the problem seems to be Cloudflare, and a big part seems to be that thousands of individual IPs sometimes seem to attack the forum. For example, currently, there are 3600 "guests" (unlogged in users) accessing the page. In terms of people, we're talking maybe 50 to 100, the others are machines doing various things. This doesn't include the Google BOT indexing the forum... it's relatively benign.

Cloudflare has some major screw-ups attributed to it from time to time, but the site itself is on a shared hosting server that has multiple clients to serve, so there is a limit to what you can get for an individual client.

[kaysee]

The Cloudflare error pages that were displayed over most of yesterday indicated that the connection through Cloudflare was fine, but the forum server was not responding. That suggests that Cloudlare was responding normally, and probably fighting DDOS attacks as usual, but the forum server was having problems.