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[R6cowboy]

Oh my landta.

[Lowgear]

The past day or two I've noticed the board acting a bit funny speed wise so I checked the server monitor and the load is bouncing off of 100%. I logged into Cloudflare to check the traffic activity because that's normally what causes it, and it seems we're getting inundated with some bad traffic from the US which occasionally occurs so I had to re-enable that filter for the time being.

[MarkyDents]

Good news, it’s been verified…. I’m human !

[1911Colt]

Good news, it’s been verified…. I’m human !

Let's not jump to conclusions.

I don't know you well, so this is me hoping you take jokes well :

[Lowgear]

Here we are exactly one month later and the board started lagging badly again. Looked at the server monitor and yup, it's at 100% load. I logged into Cloudflare to try and figure out what was going on, and after much detective work it seemed like we were being inundated by Hong Kong. I blocked all traffic from China as a result, but it still didn't fix things. What the heck I thought, that must not be the problem then. After spending more time I realized that Cloudflare's traffic filter settings consider China and Hong Kong two separate entities. So I blocked Hong Kong specifically, and we're back in business. Only took over an hour to figure out, too.

The good news is upon trying to figure out the problem, I discovered some bot settings here on the board that needed to be changed. Also now AI bots are becoming a thing which need to be handled completely different from regular bots. I enabled a few settings in Cloudflare that should help prevent some of their harmful actions.