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FEEDBACK ON NEW FORUM SOFTWARE
- Thread starter Rick C.
- Start date
YYZ
Well-known member
I keep getting Cloudflare errors the past couple days. It's intermittent. I can take screen shots if this isn't a known issue.
Bender
Well-known member
Happening for me too. It's been really unreliable lately.
herman
Well-known member
Looks like the forum needed to be restored to a backup
YYZ
Well-known member
8:24am this morning
What happened?
The initial connection between Cloudflare's network and the origin web server timed out. As a result, the web page can not be displayed.
What can I do?
If you're a visitor of this website:
Please try again in a few minutes.
If you're the owner of this website:
Contact your hosting provider letting them know your web server is not completing requests. An Error 522 means that the request was able to connect to your web server, but that the request didn't finish. The most likely cause is that something on your server is hogging resources.
Bender
Well-known member
I get that there's bot scrapers but this didn't seem to happen with prior iterations of the forums at least in recent years where they just went down at random.
I was up at 3am trying to do maintenace on the server, and I ran a script to delete really old threads on the forums. But the script removed 90% of old content, so I had to revert back to a backup from a couple of days ago. It took FOREVER!
The bots are killing us. Between it running rampant through the biggest threads, it slows the server down and uses all of it's CPU. The server I have should run 10 boards our size, but the bots are again going post by post in the biggest threads.
I have the server host - Namecheap - trying to block the bots, as well as Cloudflare is trying to do the same. Once a bot sees it can get in, it runs amok.
I'm on it. I'll have to delete a lot of older content in the next couple of days, and it's a painstaking process.
Have patience, please.
The bots are killing us. Between it running rampant through the biggest threads, it slows the server down and uses all of it's CPU. The server I have should run 10 boards our size, but the bots are again going post by post in the biggest threads.
I have the server host - Namecheap - trying to block the bots, as well as Cloudflare is trying to do the same. Once a bot sees it can get in, it runs amok.
I'm on it. I'll have to delete a lot of older content in the next couple of days, and it's a painstaking process.
Have patience, please.
There were 800 guests viewing the board just now, with the vast majority of them likely being bots. So weird that's a thing that happens.
YYZ
Well-known member
1300 "guests" now
YYZ
Well-known member
I just got a "are you human?" verification pop up!
"guests" dropped down to 215
"guests" dropped down to 215
Bender
Well-known member
Working, but man it is slow. Was this a problem with the old host/server?
leafsjunkie
Active member
We're having obvious major issues with the server - something keeps hitting it hard, maxing out the RAM. Yet when it's not getting hit hard, we only use about 5% or the RAM and the site is faster than lightening. Still trying to figure it out. Arghh.
herman
Well-known member
I feel your pain, Rick. Thank you for working the problem. The forum does work beautifully when the server isn't getting bot spammed; hopefully Cloudflare or some other upstream provider has some solutions that intercept non-human traffic before it hits the server.
YYZ
Well-known member
The bots are relentless. This is a thing for anyone running any sort of website, forum or otherwise.
Bender
Well-known member
You probably already know, Rick, but I got the same Cloudflare warning most of yesterday with a server error.
