The site is running extremely slowly

[Intuit]

Had about 36 hours where I could not log in due to a Cloudflare error and/or my IP Address being banned. Just posting this to update the staff, not trying to complain, we've all got a lot going on.

Don't know about the time frame, but it wasn't just you. Got this July 1st about 2100 hours EDT.

 

[MKVIIST]

Yeah I’ve been working on fixing the issue since yesterday. Apparently there were tons of bots hitting the site yesterday which basically overloaded the database.

 

[SteveS]

The Cloudflare thing seems to have helped. It can require some tweaking as I have seen on the miata.net forum.

 

[anxiouz]

Everything is noticeably snappier today

 

[Intuit]

Yep, site loads more like every other site now. I have been greeted by a passive test that stays up for a split-second but not every time.

Curious about the size of the db, hardware specs on the server. Storage prices have increased while RAM prices unfortunately are insane; should be shipped by armored truck.

 

[MKVIIST]

Yep, site loads more like every other site now. I have been greeted by a passive test that stays up for a split-second but not every time.

Curious about the size of the db, hardware specs on the server. Storage prices have increased while RAM prices unfortunately are insane; should be shipped by armored truck.

Our server isnt that large. 2TB, 16 Cores and 64GB RAM.

 

[Capri to ST]

Our server isnt that large. 2TB, 16 Cores and 64GB RAM.

We probably don't say this enough, but we really appreciate you managing the website. It's a good car forum, I have gotten a lot of helpful information on here and have really enjoyed it through my 10 years of ownership.

 

[MKVIIST]

We probably don't say this enough, but we really appreciate you managing the website. It's a good car forum, I have gotten a lot of helpful information on here and have really enjoyed it through my 10 years of ownership.

Thanks man, its also great having solid guys like you on the community.

 

[Intuit]

Our server isnt that large. 2TB, 16 Cores and 64GB RAM.

Wow okay. Assuming healthy HDDs (good SMART stats) that would take some doing to overload. Very interesting...