12-07-2016, 08:14 PM
(12-07-2016, 06:48 PM)Chopp Wrote:(12-07-2016, 05:09 PM)Shannon Wrote:(12-07-2016, 04:51 PM)bits Wrote: Hey Shannon I know you said you were going to do some upgrades to the forum in the future for the database errors but have you thought about using cloudflare? Even their free plan has caching with instant purging so it will greatly reduce the usages of resources on your site and is pretty quick to setup.
I'm not the one who is in charge of the forum. Andrew is.
It problem is DisneylandUSA's bot infested thread. No offense to him since it may or may not be his fault, but it spikes hundreds of hits per minute throughout the day. Watch during an outage and see the difference in hits before and after it comes back up. I seriously doubt these are organic search result hits (if they are, I want the keywords). Not to mention the view count is simply ridiculous.
I agree, something with his thread or username is causing the site to crash. It mostly happens when his thread is on the frontpage
