Forum Outages
Wuerfel_21
Posts: 5,403
The forums seem to be experiencing some major downtime lately!
Anyone have an idea what's going on?
Wuerfel_21
Posts: 5,403
The forums seem to be experiencing some major downtime lately!
Anyone have an idea what's going on?
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I fear some people might give up on Parallax if this carries on.
Seems like some security settings in AWS that didn't agree with themselves after upgrading themselves.
Jeff is working on it with some AWS engineers. I'd guess it's related to some legacy settings that no one knows about and no one seems to be able to find, but they no doubt will soon
Could also be partially sketchy traffic related; For example, we had >18000 hits on the OBEX server last Thursday afternoon which wasn't ideal and I had to add some "stuff" to deal with that and keep it responsive. I suspect the learn and forum sites are seeing something similar. The traffic I can see on OBEX has been mental the last week, - someone or something (AI?) is downloading lots of stuff over and over. Though they are throttled to a calm Sunday afternoon pace now
I don't know if this is related, but it was just reposted by a former Parallax employee who is now working in a critical role at one of our country's security organizations.
Thought they might be upgrading the forum software... Guess not. Suppose that's good news.
Was a good test to see if I'm addicted to P2 forum or not...
Btw: was wondering about emergency alternatives …
Not completely sure how Discord works, but is there a P2 discord group?
Seem to recall something about that…
Yes, it's here: https://discord.com/invite/9TkW8jD
No one knows how Discord works, they keep changing it. Now they're trying to sell you ＴＨＥ ＯＲＢ or whatever. But alas, they killed off casual IRC, so it's what'll need to do for now.
Ok, this is getting ridiculous now...
I agree
When I was in CA Jeff told me that Parallax servers are constantly barraged with foreign DOS attacks.
And now AI crawlers as well, I bet. Those things grab everything they can get.
A lot of sites are using this software now to block scraping bots: https://anubis.techaro.lol
Downside is that javascript is required. It's apparently very difficult to properly block those guys otherwise, allegedly some of them proxy through some kind of botnet, so the requests come from random people's home IPs. And of course none of them read robots.txt or anything like that.
on the bright side.... maybe the AI will get better at Spin code syntax
Plural! There'll be hundreds if not thousands of them. And each one is employing tactics of deception, exploits, and DDOS to break into website databases. The sort of things "hackers" are sent to jail for doing even once.