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trunkswd 16 hours ago
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firebush03 said:
trunkswd said:

Apologies for that. We think we might know the cause of it, but not sure how to fix it. Talked with our sysadmin and he says the site is getting scraped by bots. We are getting hundreds of requests per second, maybe tens of thousands per minute. That is causing the database to not keep up and causing things to temporarily overload.

All good— no need for apologies! Site’s a bit buggy at times, I get it (though maybe I haven’t been as merciful in the past about it… which yeah I’m really sorry about that. That’s on me). Glad to hear you guys are getting things sorted out.

I hope the coder and sysadmin are able to figure out a way to stop or at least limit the bots from scraping the site. 



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