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[Paulie_D]

The forum is getting randomly attacked by spambots Andy   had around half a dozen attacks so far today already at random times. Very annoying. Currently looking at ways to block them. Bear with it... things can only get better...

Ooooh...look who"s got himself 5 gold stars!   MBN

[PHIL_TC]

The forum is getting randomly attacked by spambots Andy   had around half a dozen attacks so far today already at random times. Very annoying. Currently looking at ways to block them. Bear with it... things can only get better...

Ooooh...look who"s got himself 5 gold stars!   MBN

And I"m all red for some reason.... ties in well with the op I had on Sunday  

I"ve switched off the "advanced search" for guests for the time being, the forum is being hit with 50-60 searches by spambots at random times which is killing the forum database, the reason why it can be fine and at other times dead to dead slow.. currently building a new index on the search tool as well which will help performance in the future.

Fingers crossed... currently its fix one problem and another rears its head.. bear with it though.

[PHIL_TC]

Update :

1. Advanced search switch off for guests to help stop the spammage attacks
2. Search index now in place within the database

Lets see how the performance is from this point on. Any problems (or positives) with performance please post on here

[Paulie_D]

It"s been working nicely for me today.

[PHIL_TC]

It"s been working nicely for me today.

Cheers Paulie... been monitoring the forum database since the search changes and all been running smoothly for the past hour or so.

There"s some mods that are available to be applied to the forum software that adds visual verification (captcha) to the following which would stop the spammage attacks that have been severely hitting the site :

- Ask image in registration
- Ask image in guest posting
- Ask image when a guest or a member searches the forum
- Ask image when sending personal messages

Maybe overkill... but might be the way to go.

Any more updates on how people are finding the site since 3:30pm would be good... either positive or negative.

[AMRN]

Any more updates on how people are finding the site since 3:30pm would be good... either positive or negative.

nice and quick - no issues for me

[duke3016]

- Ask image when sending personal messages

That"s going to tilt me when I spam the NW League players.....

[PHIL_TC]

Any more updates on how people are finding the site since 3:30pm would be good... either positive or negative.

nice and quick - no issues for me

Cheers Steve all looking good so far database sat having a coffee with its feet up

- Ask image when sending personal messages

That"s going to tilt me when I spam the NW League players.....

Now moved to number 1 on list of things to do  

[AJDUK]

It"s been working nicely for me today.

Cheers Paulie... been monitoring the forum database since the search changes and all been running smoothly for the past hour or so.

There"s some mods that are available to be applied to the forum software that adds visual verification (captcha) to the following which would stop the spammage attacks that have been severely hitting the site :

- Ask image in registration
- Ask image in guest posting
- Ask image when a guest or a member searches the forum
- Ask image when sending personal messages

Maybe overkill... but might be the way to go.

Any more updates on how people are finding the site since 3:30pm would be good... either positive or negative.

All good for me too since then. Great work Phil.

Would prefer if you didn"t do the ask image for member searches or PM"s but if it has to be done so be it. Half the time those char"s are unreadable and so tilting.

[Chipaccrual]

Phil,

Couldn"t you just put up different images of yourself and the person has to type in the relevant hair colour ?

That should be bot-proof    

[Des]

There have been a lot of concurrent users on the site this evening, but so far I"ve found performance to be first class. Anyone else?

[HaworthBantam]

Absolutely marvi, top job.

[APAThetic]

There have been a lot of concurrent users on the site this evening, but so far I"ve found performance to be first class. Anyone else?

Been good this evening.

[ian.ski309]

Super whizzy this morning !

[Paulie_D]

There have been a lot of concurrent users on the site this evening, but so far I"ve found performance to be first class. Anyone else?

Still good this morning.

Phil"s worth every penny you"re not paying him.