Just painted my nails.. 

Quote from: JBR on Yesterday at 07:38:02 PMThis site's being rather slow to load today.  Anyone else?

yes.. very much so... The last few days I have had problems logging in..
 

Quote from: JBR on Yesterday at 07:38:02 PMThis site's being rather slow to load today.  Anyone else?

I checked the stats. It started a couple of days back. I've changed nothing recently apart from the database backup method but that gets done overnight. Higher "guest" traffic (spammers and hackers) but nothing obviously wrong. I have taken the time honoured first step in fixing anything computer related and rebooted the server.

Checked the access log. Looks like the culprit is the Amazon bot
https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
It says "Amazonbot respects standard robots.txt rules." so I have told it to naff off in the robots.txt file. Will see if that stops it - it depends when it next checks.

It's ludicrous. I grabbed 12 seconds worth of the log and just about every request is the damned Amazonbot. It is giving the forum quite a hanmering and the server power is pretty low so I'm more surprised it is still working than I am it has slowed. Each line is a request - so a page read. 2 of the 32 in the maybe 12 seconds were not the Amazonbot

52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:14 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82615 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:14 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3752.msg82615 HTTP/1.1" 200                              5592
3.224.220.101 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:15 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82547 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:15 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82561 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
3.224.220.101 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:15 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3752.msg82547 HTTP/1.1" 200                              5592
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:15 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3748.msg82561 HTTP/1.1" 200                              5592
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:16 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82559 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:17 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3748.msg82559 HTTP/1.1" 200                              5592
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:17 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82481 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:18 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3748.msg82481 HTTP/1.1" 200                              5592
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:18 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82486 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:19 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3748.msg82486 HTTP/1.1" 200                              5591
?? NotAmazon 216.144.248.19 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:19 +0000] "GET /index.php HTTP/1.1" 200 5624
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:19 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82448 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:19 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3748.msg82448 HTTP/1.1" 200 5591
3.224.220.101 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:20 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82633 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
3.224.220.101 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:21 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3748.msg82633 HTTP/1.1" 200 5594
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:21 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82618 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:22 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3748.msg82618 HTTP/1.1" 200 5592
3.224.220.101 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:22 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82617 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
?? NotAmazon 185.191.171.11 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:22 +0000] "GET /index.php?topic=2955.0 HTTP/1.1" 200 7156
3.224.220.101 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:23 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3748.msg82617 HTTP/1.1" 200 5593
3.147.67.48 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:24 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=sucguj96o77gq3sfpv0v3emkiu&msg=103328 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
3.147.67.48 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:24 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=sucguj96o77gq3sfpv0v3emkiu;topic=4495.msg103328 HTTP/1.1" 200 7195
23.22.35.162 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:24 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82449 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
23.22.35.162 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:25 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3748.msg82449 HTTP/1.1" 200 5592
44.214.187.82 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:25 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=p3r6ekkams03qanon7t70728at&topic=762.0 HTTP/1.1" 200 5808
23.22.35.162 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:25 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82545 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
23.22.35.162 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:26 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3748.msg82545 HTTP/1.1" 200 5592
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:26 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&msg=82612 HTTP/1.1" 302 20
52.70.240.171 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:27 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c;topic%3D3748.msg82612 HTTP/1.1" 200 5592
23.22.35.162 - - [20/May/2024:08:56:27 +0000] "GET /index.php?PHPSESSID=l7kmkm488l7srpa24umbhtoh9c&topic=3756.0 HTTP/1.1" 200 7310
       

Wordle 1,066 4/6

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Daily Quordle 847
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Daily Sequence Quordle 847
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
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Weekly Quordle Challenge 48
8️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
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Daily Octordle #847
9️⃣5️⃣
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8️⃣7️⃣
Score: 67

Daily Sequence Octordle #847
4️⃣6️⃣
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Score: 67

Daily Rescue Octordle #847
7️⃣🔟
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Score: 9
A two up 

Wordle 1,066 X/6

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🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩     Oh dear !!

My son in law has an EV, he runs a business, and the tax benefits were very attractive, but he wouldn't choose to have another.  

Wordle 1,066 4/6

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Daily Quordle 847
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
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Weekly Quordle Challenge 48
6️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
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Daily Sequence Quordle 847
4️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
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Daily Octordle #847
🔟6️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
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Score: 52

Daily Sequence Octordle #847
3️⃣5️⃣
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Score: 63

Daily Rescue Octordle #847
5️⃣9️⃣
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Score: 9
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Wordle 1,066 3/6

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