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Forum problem
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2025 12:43 pm
by VilleK
The forum went down and I'm still not sure what caused it. I contacted server support but they were not very helpful. Now I have restored a backup from one week ago. Let's hope it works now.
Re: Forum problem
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2025 7:44 am
by VilleK
Kjell alerted me that there have been very large number of guest users on this forum recently. This is most likely what have caused the server problems. Some kind of bot-network attack.
If this continues then we may need to configure the forum to only show content for registered users.
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Re: Forum problem
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 12:17 pm
by Ats
Yeah… the open web keeps shrinking. Everything needs walls now just to stay online against bots, making the experience tiresome for us humans.
On my own server, I’ve had to set up aggressive rules to detect suspicious connections and automatically quarantine them for a week. The logs show thousands per hour. Things like \x03\x00\x00/*\xE0\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00Cookie: mstshash=Administr.
I now block anything starting with \x as well as requests for specific WordPress files. The amount of attacks targeting those is just crazy.