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Good news, everyone. I found the issue. Funny how solving the OLD issue drove up the activity and this issue turned into the "activity...

Thank you! Ok, that's what I'm tracking down. Looks like a forum-level error rather than sever-resources, so that's good in some ways...

@Ibrahim Here is your screen shot that I just took a couple minutes ago

Can you grab a screenshot of this next time, too? I'm glad it's returning to normal without me having to go in and restart the server...

11-13-25. For the last five hours ( just before noon until now) I have not been able to log on. Tells me it is unable to load page, try...

Hello All! I know we solved a lot of the slow loading and speed issues earlier, but I've noted a few threads as well as some PMs coming...

So I checked our web server logs around that time and didn’t find any server errors or slowdowns at that moment. The traffic there was...

It happened 2 times just before I posted the problem at 8:55 CST here in South Texas. Thanks.

Okay. I'll check the logs, did it happen at a particular time of day? Or is it intermittent?

Yup. Unfortunately they'll just go on to another set of IPs. So that's why I'm hopeful the new setup will trigger properly and ban them...

And you know why I hate spammers and bots so much. I tend to ban spammers permanently. I even had to do some IP groups blocks. If it has...

So what happened was we were cruising just fine after the fixes I put in months ago, but then a couple of days ago a bot hit us (and...

being a poster who felt a while ago that this site was suffering and needed to be put down and end its suffering, I have to now say that...

We did have a bunch of IPs that took up a lot of connections all at once. But I'm working on getting it so it blocks that from happening...

Looking at things. Thanks for mentioning it!