Topic: site health

[denward17]

For about 15 minutes tonight could not get the site to respond, From about 9 pm to 9:15 EDT.

[gotorx7]

Apple is training their AI, and causing havoc everywhere.. Their bots ignore all the normal bot "rules" regarding limits..

Yet another reason to hate CrApple ...

[PeWe]

It would be fine with an AI filter to avoid hanging the site. Time between searches from the same IP or Network. Check of MAC address if manipulating the IP address?
A wait time when not allowing traffic, inhibit time from same device

[denward17]

Just after 4pm EDT today, I was monitoring the number of users and it jumped from about 1300 to over 7k in about 2 minutes....

[PeWe]

I tried to comment on the 2026 rides then.
I had written,  but impossible to send so I gave up after several tries for 30 minutes.

[Kevin D]

Users Online Users Online
351 Guests, 4 Users (1 Buddy)
Users active in past 15 minutes:
Kevin D, scottly, Terry in Australia, TideWater2
Most Online Today: 17,629. Most Online Ever: 25,655 (April 10, 2026, 01:15:41 PM)

I don’t follow these numbers but this is the problem, yes? 17000 and 25000 users raising hell with sohc4.
351 guests, 4 users 1 buddy, no problem.

[scottly]

Traffic has been very light all day, besides the 17,629 peak that happened sometime this morning. I did notice an increase just after you posted, Kevin.