Troubles with the site

[BigBird]

All Good Here! Thanks

[phoo]

Cool. Thanks, everyone. I'll cautiously declare victory. Sorry it took so long to get it worked out, but this is outside of my skillset. My day job is *breaking* servers, not keeping them up, so this is all new to me. I appreciate your patience.


Thanks,

~Patrick

[phoo]

Just to bump this thread now that the site has been working well for almost a month, here's a graph of the traffic to the site from the last 30 days, according to Cloudflare. The giant hills on the left is the traffic that was hitting the site before I finally figured out the proper countermeasures. The dips were from me trying different things that didn't really work, as the bots figured out how to bypass them. The smooth, low-level lines are the traffic we've been sustaining in a consistent basis now that the bad bots are gone. Yay!

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Hopefully, the fix holds. I've been trying to be sure to check in on the site daily, but if anyone notices any issues please don't hesitate to let me know.


Thanks,

~Patrick

[Bucho]

Good work

[Purple Haze]

Thanks for all your hard work.

[phoo]

Thanks. I'm just sharing because I find data fun, and it's nice to see stuff is actually working like it's supposed to.


~Patrick

[kos1]

Those are satisfying charts, nice work. Did you end up going with the paid version of Cloudflare?

Let us know if we can kick in some $$ for a bot defense (or beer) fund.

[phoo]

We're still on the free tier of Cloudflare and it seems to be doing what it needs to. I'll never refuse a free beer, but it's definitely not necessary and you guys already give me plenty. It's nice to be giving back to you all. Like I said before, I'm glad that I'm finally actually using this server that I've been paying for since 2000. I was honestly nervous it wasn't going to be up for the task.

But anyway, I'll stop bumping this thread because *hopefully* (crosses fingers, knocks on wood, sacrifices a chicken) the site will be smooth sailing from here on out!


Thanks,

~Patrick