Random server glitches over the past week

[Bull Shannon]

I keep getting this message.

Hosting Server Connect Timeout
HTTP 502 — Unable to Connect to the Origin Server

Please try again in a few minutes.

For me today, I get that message about every other click...

Cosign. It's been a constant for me, too.

[MWmetalhead]

I can confirm the renewed slowness is coming from (surprise!) scraping bots owned by Microsoft.

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I can confirm the renewed slowness is coming from (surprise!) scraping bots owned by Microsoft.

Maybe that’s what they should go after them for.

[MWmetalhead]

My sessions table, which I emptied about a week ago, had 96,000 unique sessions recorded since then.

We all know damn well the vast majority of that is from A.I. scraping bots.

When the sessions table in my database becomes overloaded, it can cause major site issues.

I just found a setting in my Admin Panel just now that will hopefully prevent this from reoccurring. I've also opened a ticket with my server side security provider asking if additional safeguards can be put in place to eliminate bot scraping traffic.

[ZenithCKLW]

My laptop behaves so weird when those issues with the board happen. My phone and ipad, on the same network, don’t encounter the identical issues (other issues).

I don’t know enough about web server issues, but my laptop security software does weird things sometimes so I’m slightly paranoid. There’s no chance my computer is doing something to cause this, right?

[MWmetalhead]

You've got nothing to worry about. I can see the sources of the traffic overwhelming the server. A big chunk is from Microsoft.

[Honeyman]

I get this alot:

[km1125]

My sessions table, which I emptied about a week ago, had 96,000 unique sessions recorded since then.

We all know damn well the vast majority of that is from A.I. scraping bots.

When the sessions table in my database becomes overloaded, it can cause major site issues.

I just found a setting in my Admin Panel just now that will hopefully prevent this from reoccurring. I've also opened a ticket with my server side security provider asking if additional safeguards can be put in place to eliminate bot scraping traffic.

You would think this wouldn't be any harder to handle than the spam email issues that have been prevalent for over 30 years. Once you start ID'ing the sources on an individual basis, you blacklist them from all other sites (whether by IP address, DNS ID, or other info).