Sorry about the slowdowns this morning, an automatic backup didn't quite go as planned so had to cancel and reboot the server when I spotted the slowdowns this morning. It does a huge backup of all data the first day of each month then nightly, incremental backups every day, these are then stored securely and remotely.
As for server packages such as PHP, Apache and Redis they are all the latest and stable releases compatible with this forum software.
It's more the case of the forum software starting to show its age as above mentioned server packages continue to be developed so minor changes are introduced and for example some functions in the forum software code could now be depreciated or at least it will log errors in the background to file, causing slowdowns and timeout like you guys mentioned above.
Yes the forum software will be updated at some point but it's a big task.
/Edited for clarity.
/Edit again optimized the PHP settings, should run smoother now.
As for server packages such as PHP, Apache and Redis they are all the latest and stable releases compatible with this forum software.
It's more the case of the forum software starting to show its age as above mentioned server packages continue to be developed so minor changes are introduced and for example some functions in the forum software code could now be depreciated or at least it will log errors in the background to file, causing slowdowns and timeout like you guys mentioned above.
Yes the forum software will be updated at some point but it's a big task.
/Edited for clarity.
/Edit again optimized the PHP settings, should run smoother now.
OK as a test I've reduced the online timeout for users and guests, this should keep the sessions table smaller. If someone get a similar error message as posted above please ping me and I'll take a second look at what can be done.
Now this will make it appear that we have less online than we do but it doesn't really matter.
Now this will make it appear that we have less online than we do but it doesn't really matter.
We've had 1.09 million bot hits in the last 24 hours, geez. Almost all AI bots.
Yeah they are next impossible to block it seems, I've tried IP blocking and through robots.txt, they just walk right in. I did try user agent string block, no-no.
Now trying to figure out through Cloudflare how to deal with it. Wish me luck
Yeah they are next impossible to block it seems, I've tried IP blocking and through robots.txt, they just walk right in. I did try user agent string block, no-no.
Now trying to figure out through Cloudflare how to deal with it. Wish me luck
