Quote from: GrannyMac on Today at 07:05:01 AMMy 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. 

Exactly.  The real reason for this, supposedly, marked increase in EV purchases is simply that the government, in its wisdom, has been bribing people to 'invest' in them.

I believe that when the hand-outs go, so will the interest in buying EVs!

Thanks Klon, for looking into this.
I use Amazon a lot when purchasing and it occurs to me that I may have inadvertently allowed their bugs access, though of course I'd never knowingly do that.
Is there anything you would suggest that I should do to prevent this happening again, should it actually be down to me in some way?

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 (page read) 2 of the 32 shown 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

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Looked again and it is going even faster. Running about 12 requests a second. We'd need rather a lot of members to manage that so no need to upgrade the server for a few weeks.,
       

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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.  

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