Bots are working us over pretty good. Right now there are about 800 viewing. That seems to be why it's loading slowly.

Now it's over a thousand - 1112 Anonymous Guests

1208 now.

Usually they are in the IP group that starts with 57 but now they are in the 180's. Hong Kong, Colombia, Venezuela, ..........

Can't block them all unfortunately.

Extremely slow.

Isn't there any way to get rid of them?

It's very slow for me today. Click-on-a-post-and-go-get-a-cup-of-coffee-and-hope-it-loaded-by-the-time-I get-back-slow. LOL

I don't know of any way to keep them out. Now - 1303 Anonymous Guests

I changed the permission to view this forum. I'll switch it back in a bit. I'll see if that may help.

Looks like most of them are using Huawei as an ISP but likely all VPN's from that point outward. If ya block one group of IP's they just switch to another.

Maybe Patrice can figure out a way to deal with them. Have you talked to SD about it ?

I shut it down for awhile to maybe flush the buggers. We'll see.

Much better !! Thanks !!

Just curious, what are the bots doing, or looking for???

That seemed to have worked, back up to speed now for me, thanks.

You can be certain it isn't because they need info on dirt holes or blue buckets

What's a bot?

They are fly larva under the skin of cattle. Nasty little critters.

IP addresses can be set for anywhere. This is so you can't identify who's watching you. Or shopping you.

Haha

Thank you Paul, Can't imagine the pain it is to run this place.

wws