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DOS on server
Hi all -
Apologies if the server has been flaky the past few days. For some reason, a bot has decided to visit various posts and blog pages here 100's of thousands of times a day. Considering that we have a few dozen active users here, it's a big change. If you look at the bottom of the page, you'll see the metrics of the visitors, and today this site hit a new high. This automated activity is filling up the session table, and slowing/crashing things as it recovers over time. They are coming from all different IPs, and are not easy to just block - as they are also targeting the non-stock, but well-known, mods on this site. In all likelihood, this will stop on its own in a few days, but we'll have to see.
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