Yes - I have seen it on a number of occasions recently.
I wonder what is causing it?
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26th Apr 2024 8:46 am
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I've had it a 3 or 4 times over the last few days, but refreshing the page usually results in the page displaying correctly.1996 Discovery 1 300TDI ES Biarritz Blue, sold
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26th Apr 2024 2:07 pm
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We are under pressure from bots which is overloading the server/database, I'm working on blocking them.06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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26th Apr 2024 2:41 pm
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Likewise, several instances recently.
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26th Apr 2024 2:42 pm
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Not browser related, server issue06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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26th Apr 2024 2:42 pm
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Not sure on the exact environment you’re working with but have you thought of putting cloudflare or something similar in front of the website? It tends to be useful for most people. Pretty good at detecting whether human or bot as well as mitigate the normal DDoS, both volumetric or protocol specific, stuff.
26th Apr 2024 2:59 pm
kajtzu
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Or if that is too invasive, perhaps the Turnstile service would work instead? See https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/, there is a free plan which does not have volume limits.
26th Apr 2024 3:08 pm
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been seeing this.
Just happened again now.
28th Apr 2024 10:28 am
Martin Site Admin and Owner
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I Will report back when resolved, so this should be considered ongoing at the moment.06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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28th Apr 2024 11:22 am
Martin Site Admin and Owner
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Have investigated this and discovered Face book hoovering up gallery images at an site-breaking rate OFF!
This basically caused a denial-of-service to the site database, knocking the forum offline.
To mitigate this I have, for the moment, taken the gallery pages offline.
Uploading images via the forum still works.
I have implemented Cloudflare in front of the site as suggested, but interestingly there seem limited ways to block or rate limit Facebook specifically using Cloudflare tools. I guess FB pay too much 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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8th May 2024 2:41 pm
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Cheers Martin,
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13th Jun 2024 8:45 am
Martin Site Admin and Owner
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This is now ongoing with Facebook not respecting limits and knocking the site offline.06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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13th Jun 2024 12:53 pm
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Can you send them a big bill for your time, effort and stress?
13th Jun 2024 1:06 pm
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It takes quite a few attempts to find a gap between the "bots" to post or execute a command, but it does get there.... eventually.
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