Site slow?

[Mark1966]

Is the site really really slow for others this morning?



Are the bots the cause @Monsta_AU ?

 

[silverlifter]

Yep: painfully so...

 

[Mark1966]

I noticed that 'guests' rose to about 11k but are now down to 4.5k, and dropping ...

 

[silverlifter]

And performance is stabilised. AI scrapers are making the web unusable at times.

 

[Gargravarr]

It's been working fine for me. However, over the last few days, I've been taking a different route in. I've been going through a VPN coming out in South Korea. For whatever reason (I haven't looked at the hops in any detail), that often gives me an apparently faster connection than whatever Telstra defaults to.

 

[SpeedyPC]

Sounds like hackers and scammers are looking for a way in to kill us all.

 

[Monsta_AU]

Sounds like hackers and scammers are looking for a way in to kill us all.

Nah, just a massive influx of scraper bots.

 

[SpeedyPC]

Nah, just a massive influx of scraper bots.

I'm sure there has to be other areas beside massive influx of scraper bots.