We've been getting absolutely hammered the last couple days. Much of it is search engine crawlers like Google. I'm not sure why the sudden spike in crawler traffic, but I am working to mitigate. It is temporary. Thanks for your patience.

Thank you for all that you do sir.

All seems much better this AM Zzzz, looks like you nailed it

Thank you VERY MUCH for the endless hours you spend on this great site Zane. Sincerely appreciated!

Zzz wrote:We've been getting absolutely hammered the last couple days. Much of it is search engine crawlers like Google. I'm not sure why the sudden spike in crawler traffic, but I am working to mitigate. It is temporary. Thanks for your patience.

Wait till those kids of yours start getting their own screen time... I've got fiber optic and my daughter can bring my router to its knees in a heartbeat!!

FWIW the last couple days when BCP comes up (I stay logged in all the time),
a page comes up that says BCP is checking my browser.
Seems like that's something new.
Is it checking me for malware, to make sure I'm not a crawler, or ??

hotrod180 wrote:FWIW the last couple days when BCP comes up (I stay logged in all the time),
a page comes up that says BCP is checking my browser.
Seems like that's something new.
Is it checking me for malware, to make sure I'm not a crawler, or ??

It's a temporary "interstitial" page that helps protect against being flooded by bots. I'll prob disable it later today.

Interesting, I have Latest Forum Topics bookmarked and that is what I see right away with no notices.

The site is pretty slow right now. It's taking 20-30 seconds for each page to load. Only thing missing is the phone modem audio sounds to make the effect complete.

Yea, it's better now. The issue is that google launches it's crawler/indexer thing towards the site and sends a few thousand requests which is more than the server can handle all at once.

There is already a new server in the works, but this stuff takes time. The site is fairly complex and we don't want any downtime so it takes a bit of engineering and testing to get things updated.

Thanks for being patient!

akschu wrote:Yea, it's better now. The issue is that google launches it's crawler/indexer thing towards the site and sends a few thousand requests which is more than the server can handle all at once.

There is already a new server in the works, but this stuff takes time. The site is fairly complex and we don't want any downtime so it takes a bit of engineering and testing to get things updated.

Thanks for being patient!

And thank you guys for all the hard work! We appreciate it!