Classic British Flight Sim

For the last few days and especially today (Tuesday) this forum has been very slow, often can read at all with 504 errors and getting logged out continually. I wonder if its getting hammered by the AI bots, it happened to a sight I manage and took some effort to get things under control.

Very slow for me too over the last couple of days. Often taking 30 seconds or more to load a page.

Yes, theres some sort of problem, i had it a few months back too. Seems to clear on its own after a few days, but I’ve no idea whats causing it from the logs.

Ben hops in, and the problem is scared off. Back to full speed tonight Woohoo

I've had issues getting in too.

Working fine again for me.

It’s working now for me also. When a similar thing happened on the site I manage I noticed that +80% of the calls were from the same user agent, I blocked that and the problem went away.

Working well here today, first time since Friday. A couple of months back, my usual forum had the same sort of problem. The current membership was then 1200, but users online was showing 6091 ! - the one being me and the other 6090 unregistered users, which would include some registered users who had not logged in.
I am not famiiar with php coding, but in computer terms it cannot be hugely difficult to set a limit to the permitted number of unnregistered guests if the numbers are already being logged.
MikeW

[quote=emfrat post_id=380981 time=1784766301...... A couple of months back, my usual forum had the same sort of problem. The current membership was then 1200, but users online was showing 6091 ! - the one being me and the other 6090 unregistered users, ...........
MikeW
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Is that forum aviation related Mike?