DDoS?

[Owen Smith]

Forum's on a go slow. Nearly 7k guests.

Update: 10k+ now... 12k...

What annoys me is these probably AI crawlers often don't attribute the information to hummy.tv when they regurgitate it, nor do they pay any attention to copyright or patents.

 

[Brian]

The forum currently has 18,788 Banned users, and these can still access the forum, but I don't think they can actually do, or see anything apart from various error messages, or blank pages.

We are now up to 19,210 Banned users.

 

[Black Hole]

But "guests" don't need to be logged in anyway. Just now there were 11k+ guests and the forum was flakey, now it's down to 5k it's much better.

 

[Brian]

Yes, it certainly slowed down for me.

 

[MymsMan]

But "guests" don't need to be logged in anyway. Just now there were 11k+ guests and the forum was flakey, now it's down to 5k it's much better.

There is a XenForo extension that can limit what guests can do but it is a paid extension.

 

[EEPhil]

If there are 11k+ guests it isn't a limit on what guests do that is required. The number of simultaneous guests that can view the site needs to be limited.
Do we know if some/many of the guests are from the same/similar IP address(es)?

 

[MymsMan]

If there are 11k+ guests it isn't a limit on what guests do that is required. The number of simultaneous guests that can view the site needs to be limited.
Do we know if some/many of the guests are from the same/similar IP address(es)?

The XenForo extension is probably overkill for or needs which could be probably be satisfied with a simple rule like
If use is 'guest' and guestct > 500 then return "Not Authorized"
that would allow for a resonable number of genuine guests
But I think we still need @af123 to actually implement any changes