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2025.05.09

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Sorry if you had problems accessing the site around 7pm last night and ran into a 508 error,
The site was running very slowly or not loading at-all, and in cPanel, you could see that 99% of the CPU time for the account was being used up.
I found a whole load of IPs in two different network ranges that were running constant bogus queries against the forum and other things.
It was also being run from quite a range of device types, judging from the user agent strings.

So I blocked both IP ranges from cPanel and everything was back to normal right away.

At one point, there were 80 'guest users' on the forum spamming the server with constant queries.

The traffic was coming from a VPN company in Singapore.  So the origin of the disruption could have been anywhere.

It makes me wonder why anyone would set up the resources and direct them to stun a PR3 website about an old TV show.
I don't think it's been a bot net because of the different types of devices involved.
We had this same sort of thing about a year ago from an AWS farm near Langley.

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Glad it's all sorted x

Crash 2025.05.10 | 21:21

Thanks very much,
It's easily fixed once you know it's happening.

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