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Post: # 1710764Post BackFromUSA »

Many of you may have noticed that over the past 5 days the site has been under attack by spammers.

Some of these attacks have maxed out our RAM on the virtual server and taken the site down.

I hope to have overcome this by increasing the RAM we can access.

I am not sure it will fix the outages but I hope so.

As for the spammers - settings have been changed to hopefully keep them at bay for a while!

Simon


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BackFromUSA wrote:Many of you may have noticed that over the past 5 days the site has been under attack by spammers.

Some of these attacks have maxed out our RAM on the virtual server and taken the site down.

I hope to have overcome this by increasing the RAM we can access.

I am not sure it will fix the outages but I hope so.

As for the spammers - settings have been changed to hopefully keep them at bay for a while!

Simon
Block and ban Numpty please. He is real life spambot. Bit of a conicidence if you ask me too.

Good work too.


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Post: # 1710769Post BackFromUSA »

ParkeySainter

You can block numpty yourself if you do not enjoy his / her attempt at humour.

Click on USER CONTROL PANEL at top of your page

Click on FRIENDS AND FOES option in the top menu tab

And you can list him / her as a FOE there and it will block their direct posts and PMs.

Thanks

Simon

p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.


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Post: # 1710770Post degruch »

BackFromUSA wrote:p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.
When deciphered, most Numpty posts seem to be aimed at one poster...sooooo...you know the rules...


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:)

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degruch wrote:
BackFromUSA wrote:p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.
When deciphered, most Numpty posts seem to be aimed at one poster...sooooo...you know the rules...
Agreed that recent posts have been baiting one poster and a warning was issued already this morning for baiting.


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BackFromUSA wrote:ParkeySainter

You can block numpty yourself if you do not enjoy his / her attempt at humour.

Click on USER CONTROL PANEL at top of your page

Click on FRIENDS AND FOES option in the top menu tab

And you can list him / her as a FOE there and it will block their direct posts and PMs.

Thanks

Simon

p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.
Fair enough and I have blocked him. Its a shame he/she spams and ruins threads for everyone on here though. That is my point. Numpty is about as funny as cancer itself.

I kind of feel sorry for him. You hear about these loser trolls with no life that float around the internet - he/she is a prime example of one.


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Post: # 1710787Post minneapolis »

parkeysainter wrote:
BackFromUSA wrote:ParkeySainter

You can block numpty yourself if you do not enjoy his / her attempt at humour.

Click on USER CONTROL PANEL at top of your page

Click on FRIENDS AND FOES option in the top menu tab

And you can list him / her as a FOE there and it will block their direct posts and PMs.

Thanks

Simon

p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.
Fair enough and I have blocked him. Its a shame he/she spams and ruins threads for everyone on here though. That is my point. Numpty is about as funny as cancer itself.

I kind of feel sorry for him. You hear about these loser trolls with no life that float around the internet - he/she is a prime example of one.
I really like him. Pity you do not appreciate his humor. I like Clay Davis too.


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Post: # 1710790Post magnifisaint »

Sounds like a good movie


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magnifisaint wrote:Sounds like a good movie
Yeah
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Post: # 1710794Post saint-stu »

Hey Simon, it might be worth configuring recaptcha to stop accounts being generated automatically https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... a-captcha/


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degruch wrote:
BackFromUSA wrote:p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.
When deciphered, most Numpty posts seem to be aimed at one poster...sooooo...you know the rules...
personally like Numpty.
pretty funny.

Not sure who is baiting who really.
As stated, if you dont like him or think he is making not so subtle political statements that you dont agree with, just put him on ignore


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saint-stu wrote:Hey Simon, it might be worth configuring recaptcha to stop accounts being generated automatically https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... a-captcha/
Already done and have 4 rotating questions so even if they google or guess an answer it slows down their registration rate. Thinking of increasing the questions to 8 or 10 to slow it down. But it is the spiders and bots that they use that are causing the site usage surges causing the crashes by exceeding the VPS allowance. So I have banned all bots and spiders for now including google, yahoo and bing for now.


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BackFromUSA wrote:
saint-stu wrote:Hey Simon, it might be worth configuring recaptcha to stop accounts being generated automatically https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... a-captcha/
Already done and have 4 rotating questions so even if they google or guess an answer it slows down their registration rate. Thinking of increasing the questions to 8 or 10 to slow it down. But it is the spiders and bots that they use that are causing the site usage surges causing the crashes by exceeding the VPS allowance. So I have banned all bots and spiders for now including google, yahoo and bing for now.
An image based captcha would stop bots registering. Are the bots registering or just browsing?


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Post: # 1710802Post Saints43 »

Probably nice to have a bit of traffic on the site.


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Post: # 1710804Post skeptic »

Could you just close new registrations for a while?


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Post: # 1710813Post Numpty »

? ? ? wrote:
BackFromUSA wrote:Many of you may have noticed that over the past 5 days the site has been under attack by spammers.

Some of these attacks have maxed out our RAM on the virtual server and taken the site down.

I hope to have overcome this by increasing the RAM we can access.

I am not sure it will fix the outages but I hope so.

As for the spammers - settings have been changed to hopefully keep them at bay for a while!

Simon
Block and ban Numpty please. He is real life spambot. Bit of a conicidence if you ask me too.

Good work too.
How did my name get dragged into this thread, folks??? :? The real fake news mass-baiter has been shown for all to see, and everyone sees, and I thank them for seeing. 20/20 vision, believe me. #makingfakenewsattacksonpatriotsgrateagain


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Post: # 1710821Post BackFromUSA »

if anyone notices any outages of more than 5 minutes PLEASE post the time it happened here!

I think I have solved the bot and spam account problem ... for now.

A few questionable new members still for past 5 or 6 days ... which I shall leave just in case they are legit ... which I doubt BUT just in case.


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if anyone notices any outages of more than 5 minutes PLEASE post the time it happened here!

I think I have solved the bot and spam account problem ... for now.

A few questionable new members still for past 5 or 6 days ... which I shall leave just in case they are legit ... which I doubt BUT just in case.


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Post: # 1711246Post Jacks Back »

Are we still under attack? This site keeps playing up for me. It happened again before about 9.30pm ish ESDT


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Post: # 1711249Post parkeysainter »

Jacks Back wrote:Are we still under attack? This site keeps playing up for me. It happened again before about 9.30pm ish ESDT
This site seems to shut down the same time every night (time depends on whether its daylight savings or not too). Guessing the forum reboots or something like that automatically.

Its possible it just deletes all of Con G's posts every night because they're so bad. :wink:


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Post: # 1711253Post BackFromUSA »

Checking into it. Seems to reboot around und 9pm but down for a long time.


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Post: # 1711255Post Jacks Back »

Okay thanks guys. I remember you telling me that before but that's just the time I get on the computer after watching the telly. (I know, I live the high life). :lol:


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Post: # 1711258Post BackFromUSA »

They do a nightly update around 9pm but it usually takes less than 5 minutes but for some reason it seems to be taking up to a half hour


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