Site slow loading

[peewon]

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

[Chuckjr]

I had same issues as others but now it seems to be working fine. Thank you Steven and mods.

[Wouter]

Here we go again. The site is again slow loading since this morning.

[organic]

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

[Jackuar]

Similar feeling of slow loading on Android mobile here.

[organic]

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...

[Vappy]

Yeah, horribly slow.

[Chuckjr]

Back to slow.
Sorry for all the trouble, Steven.

[Steven]

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.

[Steven]

Did Steve make some enemies we don't know about?

I hope not. If they're trying to annoy me, it's working

[maxxer]

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

[bluechris]

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

[Steven]

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.

[bluechris]

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.

[Mattchu]

Bloody AI bots