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Paulie_D:
--- Quote from: PHIL_TC on May 03, 2012, 15:04:30 PM ---
The forum is getting randomly attacked by spambots Andy >:( had around half a dozen attacks so far today already at random times. Very annoying. Currently looking at ways to block them. Bear with it... things can only get better...
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Ooooh...look who"s got himself 5 gold stars! ;D MBN
PHIL_TC:
--- Quote from: Paulie_D on May 03, 2012, 15:09:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: PHIL_TC on May 03, 2012, 15:04:30 PM ---
The forum is getting randomly attacked by spambots Andy >:( had around half a dozen attacks so far today already at random times. Very annoying. Currently looking at ways to block them. Bear with it... things can only get better...
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Ooooh...look who"s got himself 5 gold stars! ;D MBN
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And I"m all red for some reason.... ties in well with the op I had on Sunday :-X
I"ve switched off the "advanced search" for guests for the time being, the forum is being hit with 50-60 searches by spambots at random times which is killing the forum database, the reason why it can be fine and at other times dead to dead slow.. currently building a new index on the search tool as well which will help performance in the future.
Fingers crossed... currently its fix one problem and another rears its head.. bear with it though.
PHIL_TC:
Update :
1. Advanced search switch off for guests to help stop the spammage attacks
2. Search index now in place within the database
Lets see how the performance is from this point on. Any problems (or positives) with performance please post on here
Paulie_D:
It"s been working nicely for me today.
PHIL_TC:
--- Quote from: Paulie_D on May 03, 2012, 15:55:54 PM ---
It"s been working nicely for me today.
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Cheers Paulie... been monitoring the forum database since the search changes and all been running smoothly for the past hour or so.
There"s some mods that are available to be applied to the forum software that adds visual verification (captcha) to the following which would stop the spammage attacks that have been severely hitting the site :
- Ask image in registration
- Ask image in guest posting
- Ask image when a guest or a member searches the forum
- Ask image when sending personal messages
Maybe overkill... but might be the way to go.
Any more updates on how people are finding the site since 3:30pm would be good... either positive or negative.
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