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Re: Recent forum outage

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 3:49 pm
by capitano
Funkycowie wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:02 pm During summer we were seeing a lot of registrations from dodgy email accounts so we put in measures to reduce this as dealing with is was getting really tedious.
On behalf of Mottza and I, we'd like to thank you for giving us half an hour of our lives back every day. :lol: 8-)

Re: Recent forum outage

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 3:57 pm
by Funkycowie
capitano wrote: Wed Oct 09, 2019 3:49 pm
Funkycowie wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:02 pm During summer we were seeing a lot of registrations from dodgy email accounts so we put in measures to reduce this as dealing with is was getting really tedious.
On behalf of Mottza and I, we'd like to thank you for giving us half an hour of our lives back every day. :lol: 8-)
You're welcome :)

Re: Recent forum outage

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:13 pm
by halfabusa
Thanks a bunch for your continued efforts Funky! Donated $10 which showed as £8.52 but weirdly the balance went from -£13 to £-16 or smth :)

Re: Recent forum outage

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:24 am
by Stibbs
I’ve donated a little bit toward the running of the site.
I get much info from here, thank you all for your work.
BTW it’s -£16.69 now

Re: Recent forum outage

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:30 am
by Jimo
I love the site and am pleased to support its running costs by contribution of £25.55

Jim

Re: Recent forum outage

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 12:47 pm
by Funkycowie
Jimo wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:30 am I love the site and am pleased to support its running costs by contribution of £25.55

Jim
icon_8-O.gif Thank you... but are you sure???

Re: Recent forum outage

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 12:49 pm
by Funkycowie
icon_clap.gif Thank you everyone we are in the green! icon_clap.gif

And I believe I have discovered the bad bot that was causing the issue, I have banned it's IP range, we'll see what effects that has as I was still seeing spikes in server load.

Re: Recent forum outage

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:12 pm
by Whatsisname
Belatedly fronting up to the bar. Bloody hell! The pound doesn't buy many dollars these days! Worth every penny for a non facebooker!

Re: Recent forum outage

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:29 am
by Jimo
Funkycowie wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2019 12:47 pm
Jimo wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:30 am I love the site and am pleased to support its running costs by contribution of £25.55

Jim
icon_8-O.gif Thank you... but are you sure???
Funky, Shure as hell, you all do good work for the forum, I couldn’t be more than happy to give my support.
Take care of yourselves.

Jim