Forum access is slowwwww.....

FWIW,

To get to this point of typing this post took over 9 minutes from bringing up the page, selecting 'Log In', inputting credentials, clicking on this forum option, then clicking 'New Post'.

I have found this forum to be 'glacially' slow at times and very responsive other times. Doing some IP sleuthing, I found that the IP address geolocation is here in Colorado, not 35 miles from me. While waiting for the Forum to load, I did some ping tests, and sporadically, the ping time was over 0.5 seconds. Most of the time, in the 35-90 ms range. Which, given the distance to me, is pretty slow.

I don't know from the IP address if the host is local to the data center. I do know that over the last several days, this slow web performance occurs 'not infrequently'.

I had some extra time this morning to do this, and time it (admittedly, not precisely). Normally, if I faced this slowness, I would just close the browser tab and move on to my next task.

FWIW.

And now, access is nearly instantaneous.

Now is 9:09PM (UTC-7) and access is glacially slow. This started at/around 9:00pm. It has taken me this long to log in, check for new posts, bring up my post, and post this reply.

This is country of Luddites, and luddism seems is alive there. Somebody hiddenly cutting wires of the internet.

Even more, my other browser refuses to load this forum.

You should check 'In total there are xxxx users online' in the bottom left of the forum home page. Someone is flooding the site with thousands of promps. Not sure who ?

Who the heck these virtual users are ? N.Gogol 'Dead Souls'

It is weird, this forum is constantly under DDOS attacks. Sometimes there are thousands of concurrent attacks.

I shall be patient!

The phpBB forum of Linux Mint (I switched to from Windows last two years), was brutally hacked at one point in 2016, and all its data was stolen. They then switched to Sucuri which as they claim helps against DDOS attacks.

By the way the program for DDOS attack can be made in FTN95/Clearwin with just one line of Fortran source code. Easiest thing to do. This is may be why it's so widespread. And I was thinking how it happened that Fortran beating all the popularity records lately moving from 25th place to 10th while all other languages slowly lose their users base 😃

FWIW: Trouble when attempting to log in. I had to completely retype this post because when I clicked submit, I got logged out. The most common symptoms are listed below. As of this writing, I have deleted all cookies and cached items. Maybe this will help?

1. Log in, redirect message displayed, log in screen appears
2. Log in, no redirect message, log in screen appears.
3. Log in, redirect message appears, all looks normal. Click on a forum or 'view new posts', log in screen appears.

In total there are 291 users online :: 1 Registered, 0 Hidden and 290 Guests [ Administrator ] [ Moderator ] Most users ever online was 5208 on Mon Mar 17, 2025 1:17 am Registered Users: wahorger

I saw exactly this issue at the weekend - is anyone else seeing it? The domain's DNS was moved to CloudFlare last Friday so that they can 'mitigate' some of the traffic this forum site gets (the best part of 600000 requests from China in the past 24 hours)

I am repeatedly being logged out when posting or editing posts ???

Forum access is working well today. The recent access problem is not evident. I hope it stays this way 😃

I have logged on several times since my last post and have been pleased with both the performance AND not getting logged out when browsing or posting.

Not to say the issue is resolved, however.

Checking if I will be able to post anything by creating this message. Last few weeks it was impossible

Could this have been some cosmic devilry ?

There has been a lot of sun spot activity recently, with the southern aurora lights being visable over larger parts of Australia. We are told this can interfere with the internet !