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DieHard

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Forum slowness and Speed issues
« on: October 09, 2020, 11:56:58 AM »

As many of you have noticed the forum speed has decreased to a crawl since COVID and I am told by many hosting companies that COVID sparked a new level of cyber criminal want-a-bees.

We average over 150 guests at any moment, I am going to turn off guest viewing for a while and see if this helps, I fear many "guests" are hackers tying to spam and collect content for malware google hits to their junk sites
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Re: Forum slowness and Speed issues
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2020, 12:48:46 PM »

absolutely no issues with the forum here. with many places, but not here.
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Re: Forum slowness and Speed issues
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2020, 01:00:33 PM »

Actually, it is slowish from where I log in. Sometimes I hit page reload and wait and wait and wait..
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Re: Forum slowness and Speed issues
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2020, 01:07:24 PM »

Confirmed. Would not allow viewing as guest. Had to log in.
This too, shall eventually pass. Thanks DH.
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Re: Forum slowness and Speed issues
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2020, 01:33:37 PM »

Normally one every 15 hits I do on our forum is slow. When I see it I just reload and it goes quick again.
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Re: Forum slowness and Speed issues
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2020, 05:35:40 AM »

I get a 400/403 error sometimes, usually cured by a reload, but no persistent issues.

>Who's Online
>Guests: 75
>Hidden: 0
>Users: 1
>Users Online:
>ovalking

Seems like plenty of guests still to me...
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DieHard

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Re: Forum slowness and Speed issues
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2020, 04:06:46 PM »

I will turn on "guest" a few days a month to allow web crawlers/ search engines
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Re: Forum slowness and Speed issues
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2020, 09:43:02 PM »

Hello good forum people!
Just had to login to see what was going on, being mostly a forum reader rather than posting, but I noticed it was asking to log in just to access the site.  I guess I found some answers here.
Was wondering if the site had been hacked or hassled.

Interestingly, I also frequently read macintoshgarden.org and that site is down/not responding.  I thought it was strange that both sites are experiencing issues.  One of the mainstays here is active over there if I recall, are they having similar issues?
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Re: Forum slowness and Speed issues
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2020, 09:57:49 PM »

I was also trying to access the garden recently and it was down.
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Re: Forum slowness and Speed issues
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2020, 12:50:07 PM »

no new subscriptions are possible now. somebody just asked me why there is no mail coming.^^
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