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GENERAL STUFF => GENERAL DISCUSSIONS => Random Chit Chat => Topic started by: 2i30s on December 19, 2010, 11:06:32

Title: most on line. 331.
Post by: 2i30s on December 19, 2010, 11:06:32

the most ever amount of users on line was 331 on Friday 17th, and i missed it  because of a Christmas work party.  :mad:  what was the reason for the mass invasion of users?  :goodjob:

Title: Re: most on line. 331.
Post by: Dazzler on December 19, 2010, 11:13:27

Some sort of attack by bots apparently (heaps of guests from know spam IP addresses) I think that is how Shambles explained it.. so you didn't miss much.. :winker:

Title: Re: most on line. 331.
Post by: 2i30s on December 19, 2010, 11:16:34

that's a relief dazz.  :goodjob: i also missed the last two.  :-[

Title: Re: most on line. 331.
Post by: snowcherry on December 21, 2010, 23:24:05

that isn't good actually. you should be able to put something in place to stop that.
you want the spiders but not the attacks.

Title: Re: most on line. 331.
Post by: Shambles on December 21, 2010, 23:39:01

Quote from: snowcherry on December 21, 2010, 23:24:05

that isn't good actually. you should be able to put something in place to stop that.
...

Already done :D

Never nice to be "attacked", as I believe we were, almost certainly.

We get quite a few spambots [mostly from Asia] hitting our forum and consuming our bandwidth, but the moderators keep on top of it. In the case in question we were hit via multiple proxies throughout Europe & Asia using preconfigured links to various sub-boards within a 20 minute window. That's what hit us so unexpectedly and so heavily, but we caught and stifled it :D

Oh, the price of popularity  :goodjob:

Title: Re: most on line. 331.
Post by: snowcherry on December 21, 2010, 23:48:51

good stuff  :goodjob: