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Info about the website lockups

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As a lot of you have probably seen, the website has been experiencing lockups for a while now. It seems to have started in the beginning of September and has been progressively getting worse. I have been working with Support at the webhost and we finally were able to track down the problem to bots. Apparently the website, in particular the forum's URL, made it to some hacker list. This has caused traffic to increase exponentially from the bots thereby slowing things down enough to essentially freeze the server. So today I signed up with CloudFlare. They provide bot and hacker protection for the whole website. This will cost us an additional $20 a month but I think that is well worth it.

So if anyone experiences any lockups on the website from now on, be sure to DM me and let me know. And DM's are the best way to get in touch with me. I have been going full tilt for the past several months trying to get all my scheduled big handyman projects done before winter, so I haven't been around here much lately. I will be having more foot surgery this winter which is why I'm pushing my schedules. Needless to say I am still tapped out. So DM me if something screws up around here and I'll research it as soon as I can. Thanks!
 
I have tightened down the Cloudflare config a bit more today. Things seem to be working pretty smoothly but let me know if you see anything goofy.
 
Still doing it here this morning. Not as badly as it was this weekend, but still fairly frequent "page couldn't load" messages.
 
I'm still getting intermittent failures to load. When it does load it is pretty slow.
 
Is the overload with the Bots on the server a result of searches for information such as contained on this site by individuals around the world? I can just imagine every Google search that says why doesn't my bike start sends bots out to every database containing information on the topic.
 
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