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crfriend wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 11:32 am What I do notice is that with SSL turned off (NOT recommended!) it's MUCH faster, but entirely insecure, and this tends to bolster my opinion of general heavy loading on a resource we likely share with hundreds of other sites (some of which no doubt dwarf us) and probably some "A.I." foolishness soaking up all available computing cycles.

Something I haven't seen in a while is SSL connections being slow due to running out of randomness. It happens on VMs sometimes, but I thought it was a solved problem these days...

I'm on a couple of phpBB powered forums and they are reporting Denial Of Service attacks on their boars from Singapore and Hong Kong. Those forum managers seemed to think the attacks will quit in a week or two after they yield nothing.

OK, this makes some sense. With the current World Order (or lack thereof) we can expect bad actors to act badly, and I have lots of errors from Singapore and PRC in the error log from the forum. I'm also seeing IP addresses throwing errors from the vicinity of 43.157.175.122 which has no "whois" reference to it, so I wish somebody would cut that piece of fibre.

I know there are a lot of countries that are torqued off at the USA right now, but these sorts of shenanigans only hurt little folks, not the ones that need hurting.

An observation from "The Back Room".

Of the last 100(+/-) 'newbies' who had to be banned/deactivated,
99% of them were using IP's from Amsterdam. Most of them showed
up, multiple times, on a 'anti-spam' website.

Similarly, their email address domains appeared as well, with the
'domains' appearing as a 'cosmic-creation', and VERY laughable.
(Many included '.ru' as part of the domain name.)

Again, this is as observation from "The Back Room".

(Hey boss - I need a new mop to replace this ratty thing.
The water bucket hasn't rusted through - yet)

Uncle Al

Sounds like the problem has gone? I feel the site is back to its usual speed since 2-3 days now