It is a couple of days we are fighting against a kind of connection bombing from thousands of simultaneous connections from different sources.
Forum was unusable for 2 days because cpu and max background process were to the limit of our provider plan
We have blocked for a while some IP ranges in order to reduce simultaneous connections
Most connections were coming from AWS, Azure, Google, applebot.apple.com, Petalsearch.com ... and other scan bots
We also limited the possibilities of GUEST users: they can only see forum home page and not go further in threads or read posts.
You must be logged in order to see posts.
I will leave this limitation for a while and see what happen.
Now forum is still available but bombing is not ending ... anyway now I can manage it and fine control remote IPs
Will see next days.
Ciao
Eros
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