Site slow loading

[maxxer]

A miracle. Fast as lightning now. Weird!

Steven did some work with how the site is accessed, so you will need cookies enabled in order to be allowed access. It was something the bots werent using when bombarding the side

But it seems only the forum was bad , Steven did a great job i think i can say

[Dee]

Much appreciated Steven and mods, the site is a lot quicker now.

[Steven]

I implemented some blocking strategies but not sure how long this will actually work.
It's been going well for about 6h now but the load is slowly increasing gain...

Also, replying to earlier posts: the problem are now the known bots like Amazon, google, bing, etc.

What we're seeing is tons of requests from varying IPs. In the past few days, when checking last 50k requests for instance, rarely there was an IP with multiple page requests. Basically all these bots behave and identify as normal users with a request every few hours. Most IPs trace back to South America, Irak, Uzbekistan and Israel.

This is still very much ongoing with more than 50 requests/s.
Not sure what made us a target for this, and what's the point really

But, just a few requests:

• If you have an account, please always use the site logged in.
• If you get a 504 error somewhere, please PM me or contact me on discord with details

[langedweil]

Thnx Steven !!
It's still working like fine and havent ran into a 503 or 504 for a while now.

[Greg Locock]

All good now. For the time being.

[evered7]

Thank you to all the folks who worked to fix the issue.

I couldn't connect if not logged in but was rapid to access once logged in.

With races closely following each other, can't miss out on the insights and debates that the site provides. Especially since this is the very start of the season.

[Chuckjr]

Site is working well and has all day. Thank you Steven & team. Well done.

[bauc]

All good now, thank you!