Site will be down briefly early Sunday AM

[rbstern]

Last night's upgrade was about moving the site's database to a more powerful server, and adding space for storing backups that are ever-growing in size. That went reasonably smoothly, but while testing performance after the upgrade I found the site under heavy attack from brute force login attacks. Literally hundreds of attempts per second from computers all over the world. Trying to get that cleaned up, but it's like whack-a-mole.

Separately, we're trying some new software to remove old ad images, and I don't think that software is running correctly, so we're following up on that.

The site's search indexes also have to be rebuilt after the database server migration, so that's part of the sluggishness.

 

[Boogar Presley]

It's running like it's on 1997 dial-up servers

 

[palmettomoon]

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It's running like it's on 1997 dial-up servers

You're being generous. Porn loaded way faster than this with a 56k modem in 1997.

 

[BIKER13]

Like lasses in the winter time

 

[CardsFan]

Yep, very slow today. Cleared Chrome cache and cleared cookies, closed Chrome, reopened, and accessed ODT. First several attempts resulted in "bad gateway", but eventually could access the site and logged in.

 

[palmettomoon]

 

[Jamescg]

Where’s everybody been? I had to go to other web sites.

 

[BIKER13]

there are other sites?

 

[Okuma]

How are things running for folks now?

 

[coolformula]

Better it looks like, but still slow for me.