Stability issues and site ownership

[Imageview]

I think removing the guests is the key. At 0537 when typing this message, there is no way there are 13k guests. These must be bots.

Guests don't work the way you think they do. Although properly hardening the site is important, I can't evaluate if that has been done sufficiently. I am familiar enough with the software to know that the number at the bottom is meaningless.

[bohoki]

my theory is cloudflare is attacking us then emailing the admins that if you sign up with cloudflare we will protect your site

[tacticalcity]

My best guess is the hosting provider has bandwidth limits on the site. Once we hit those, they take the site down for a number of hours. This is what happens when you use cut rate hosting providers. Why use a cut rate provider? Can't afford a good one that supports the sites actual needs. This is a consequence of providing an incredibly valuable service that doesn't actually generate income.

[EM2]

My best guess is the hosting provider has bandwidth limits on the site. Once we hit those, they take the site down for a number of hours. This is what happens when you use cut rate hosting providers. Why use a cut rate provider? Can't afford a good one that supports the sites actual needs. This is a consequence of providing an incredibly valuable service that doesn't actually generate income.

AOL dial up?

[tacticalcity]

AOL dial up?

Funny, but AOL Dial Up is not a hosting provider. That's an internet provider. Different animal entirely. Back in the AOL days there were sites like GoeCities that would offer you a tiny amount of space on their server for a website. They made money by posting banner ads on your web page you could not remove. The other catch was that if you got more than a couple hundred visitors a day, they shut off your hosting service off for the remainder of the day. Then around midnight it came back online again. Until you got too many hits and they cut you off again. The vicious cycle repeated over and over. AOL offered their own hosting service back in the day, but I do not remember if they did this or not.

The behavior we are seeing with this site reminds me of that practice. Especially since it happens around peak hours when people are just getting off work. I would not be surprised if this site is being hosted on a plan that cuts it off once it reaches a certain bandwidth threshold.

Yes, I am that old. But in my defense, I was in the military, then college, back then.

[EM2]

Funny, but AOL Dial Up is not a hosting provider. That's an internet provider. Different animal entirely. Back in the AOL days there were sites like GoeCities that would offer you a tiny amount of space on their server for a website. They made money by posting banner ads on your web page you could not remove. The other catch was that if you got more than a couple hundred visitors a day, they shut off your hosting service off for the remainder of the day. Then around midnight it came back online again. Until you got too many hits and they cut you off again. The vicious cycle repeated over and over. AOL offered their own hosting service back in the day, but I do not remember if they did this or not.

The behavior we are seeing with this site reminds me of that practice. Especially since it happens around peak hours when people are just getting off work. I would not be surprised if this site is being hosted on a plan that cuts it off once it reaches a certain bandwidth threshold.

Yes, I am that old. But in my defense, I was in the military, then college, back then.

Okey Dokey, but "AOL dial up" was funny, as this is what most of us remember of the olden times of the early www. days.
Still can hear the dial up tones in my head.

[tacticalcity]

Okey Dokey, but "AOL dial up" was funny, as this is what most of us remember of the olden times of the early www. days.
Still can hear the dial up tones in my head.

I am betting it still exists somewhere, somehow, in some shape and/or form.

[ikeo]

I think removing the guests is the key. At 0537 when typing this message, there is no way there are 13k guests. These must be bots.

this is just one of many issues. TacticalCity also has another good insight. There’s a lot of little things that needs to be rearchitected in general.

[davidj]

Delete-123

[compulsivegunbuyer]

That racoon sure seems to rent a lot of space in peoples heads.

[davidj]

That racoon sure seems to rent a lot of space in peoples heads.

On the contrary, it's more like what happens when you do not take the trash out-it begins to smell up the whole space.

[calif 15-22]

Any updates?

[The Gleam]

Any updates?

No.

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[Corbin Dallas]

I have some log files to go through. I’ve not had spare time recently to devote as work has kept me very busy the last few months.

I’m hoping to have some downtime this next few weeks to look into this further.

[The Gleam]

I have some log files to go through. I’ve not had spare time recently to devote as work has kept me very busy the last few months.

I’m hoping to have some downtime this next few weeks to look into this further.

Hey! What did Spock find in the toilet of the USS Enterprise?

The Captain's Log (files).

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