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Originally Posted by KC911
I posted a thread some time back about "active users", and how it was artificially extremely high at times.... as that is something that I notice when I access the site via mobile view. I still see older threads revived by "suspicious users" outta the blue.... same old stuff.
This morning, when I first visited ... the total count was around 650 active users, and the site was "working fine" ... within a few minutes, the site became VERY sloooow, and not even responding. So I took another peek ... all of a sudden it had jumped to 3300 (abnormally high for ANY time of day). This is at 6:30 am EST ..... it's an "attack" and not by REAL users .... could be bots or just bogus "connections" ... I dunno. I only see the impact ... and it just cripples the site's performance.
But old threads being revived appear to be bot-like....
I'll get over it 
edit: They are still here as of this post.... but latent imo. |
I don't know what hosting you have in place but if you buy a cloudflare account and install it as a CDN you can analyse the bot traffic and put filters in place to mitigate their impact. Additionally it will cache pages and serve all your images for you, making the site faster even with or without bots.
Maybe you have something like that already.
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