Coffee Shop forum Server load - ongoing issues, being resolved by grahame

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[Phantom]

I've now updated the heading of this particular topic, simply to make it less historic date specific - and to record that grahame is continually dealing with these issues.

Dealing with these issues - again - this morning.   You may notice some slower responses or even no response or being turned away while I find out what's been going on overnight.

I've had the following message when viewing threads a couple of times this morning and the same thing a couple of days ago.

"A quick answer from our receptionist
The "Coffee Shop" is a popular and busy forum, and you have been calling for a lot of complex pages in a very short time. Are you real? If you are, and you keep getting this message, please get in touch with the admin team (address below)."

I guess it is known, but I still get taken to another page when I click the "like" tab, then have to press the back key to return to the forum

Oddly when I click "reply" which I tried to do here, I get this message
https://www.firstgreatwestern.info/light.html

[grahame]

Getting requests at up to ten per second and because our worker is seeing them all from the receptionist these days, it's a bit different to seeing where they'e coming from than it was when they came in direct. Working on it / think I have a fix in place - just testing.

[grahame]

OK - I think I have something in place to turn away the distributed spamspiders without interfering with members and guests.

Here is how busy the worker machine has been - overloading during the night, but with my tweaks doing better


And here is the day by day relentless rise.   Days end at 03:30, so only part of the traffic from last night is yet seen - I expect it to look the same when I look tomorrow morning, but hope to see it eased off by Sunday.