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peewon
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The website was being upgraded but unfortunately the upgrade was designed by Dan Fallows. Inconvenience is regretted.

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Chuckjr
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Joined: 24 Feb 2012, 08:34
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I had same issues as others but now it seems to be working fine. Thank you Steven and mods.
Watching F1 since 1986.

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Wouter
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Here we go again. The site is again slow loading since this morning.
The Power of Dreams!

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organic
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Appears to be happening again. The site is loading slowly with 502 bad gateways every now and then

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Jackuar
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Similar feeling of slow loading on Android mobile here.

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organic
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Please fix this! Testing is tomorrow which is really the most important part of the season for the forum. I suspect whomever is doing this knows that...

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Yeah, horribly slow.

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Chuckjr
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Back to slow.
Sorry for all the trouble, Steven.
Watching F1 since 1986.

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Steven
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Yes, apologies.
Unfortunately I need to blame bots like those from OpenAI and Amazon who were hammering the site.
Both are now contained. I'll cross my fingers.

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Steven
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Joined: 19 Aug 2002, 18:32
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SiLo wrote:
21 Feb 2025, 15:22
Did Steve make some enemies we don't know about?
I hope not. If they're trying to annoy me, it's working :lol:

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Steven wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 01:30
Yes, apologies.
Unfortunately I need to blame bots like those from OpenAI and Amazon who were hammering the site.
Both are now contained. I'll cross my fingers.
Really OpenAI is using data from this site ? With all the bickering after a race , OpenAI will become a fanboy too :)

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bluechris
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Joined: 26 Jun 2019, 20:28
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Steven wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 01:30
Yes, apologies.
Unfortunately I need to blame bots like those from OpenAI and Amazon who were hammering the site.
Both are now contained. I'll cross my fingers.
Steve a huge hog in all the world is the scrapping that ali servers do. I am in some technological forums where suddenly we were melting and the solution was after seeing the connections, to block this servers.
In specific we blocked this subnets
https://networksdb.io/ip-addresses-of/alibaba-cloud-llc

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Steven
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maxxer wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 05:13
Steven wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 01:30
Yes, apologies.
Unfortunately I need to blame bots like those from OpenAI and Amazon who were hammering the site.
Both are now contained. I'll cross my fingers.
Really OpenAI is using data from this site ? With all the bickering after a race , OpenAI will become a fanboy too :)
Well yesterday we had 120K page requests from GPTBot and Amazonbot together.
We got ample network bandwidth but all these pages need parsing and execution and the CPU is at its limit.

I'm looking into upgrade uptions but that's a bit of a long process involving testing etc, so not for tomorrow.

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bluechris
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Joined: 26 Jun 2019, 20:28
Location: Athens

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Steven wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 09:40
maxxer wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 05:13
Steven wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 01:30
Yes, apologies.
Unfortunately I need to blame bots like those from OpenAI and Amazon who were hammering the site.
Both are now contained. I'll cross my fingers.
Really OpenAI is using data from this site ? With all the bickering after a race , OpenAI will become a fanboy too :)
Well yesterday we had 120K page requests from GPTBot and Amazonbot together.
We got ample network bandwidth but all these pages need parsing and execution and the CPU is at its limit.

I'm looking into upgrade uptions but that's a bit of a long process involving testing etc, so not for tomorrow.
Just block all the crawlers mate except the ones that are crucial.

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Mattchu
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Joined: 07 Jul 2014, 19:37

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Bloody AI bots :evil: