Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 63 (9161 total)
3 online now:
Newest Member: popoi
Post Volume: Total: 915,581 Year: 2,838/9,624 Month: 683/1,588 Week: 89/229 Day: 61/28 Hour: 3/4


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   Sluggish loading
JonF
Member (Idle past 158 days)
Posts: 6174
Joined: 06-23-2003


Message 1 of 2 (723512)
04-03-2014 10:07 AM


I seem to recall Percy asking for a report when this happens... I saw incredibly slow loading, several minutes per page, staring at around 7:50 AM Eastern and continuing for 20 minutes or so. I'm using a VPN for privacy and my IP starts with 209.222.

Replies to this message:
 Message 2 by Admin, posted 04-03-2014 10:20 AM JonF has not replied

  
Admin
Director
Posts: 12993
From: EvC Forum
Joined: 06-14-2002
Member Rating: 2.1


Message 2 of 2 (723513)
04-03-2014 10:20 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by JonF
04-03-2014 10:07 AM


This has been going on for a while. I once tracked it down to many requests per second from an IP address. I blocked that address, but it happened again at a later date from a different IP. So I blocked that one instead, and then later it happened again from still a different IP. I eventually stopped trying to keep up with it. Every now and then some IP bangs on us really hard, and then everything slows down.
At one point last year it was so bad that it qualified as a genuine DOS (Denial of Service) attack, and our webhosting company shut us down because it was interfering with their own operations. I complained, to no avail. Apparently the Internet is still the wild west in some ways.

--Percy
EvC Forum Director

This message is a reply to:
 Message 1 by JonF, posted 04-03-2014 10:07 AM JonF has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024