Bot traffic, downtime

[emu_kidid]

Hi all,

You may have recently noticed we'd been down for about a week or more. It was due to heavy bot traffic targeting our small site (approx 1 million hits per day). I'd enabled CloudFlare to capture the data which then backfired as it ended up being itself detected as a bot on the host that runs this site, but it was a good exercise as I'm told we might not need to use CloudFlare going forward as the host has upped their ongoing bot detection quite a bit now.

It's a thing I've noticed on many smaller sites, I hope others survive it, it was quite relentless but I'm glad we're back with more sane looking visitor numbers on the front page.

Anyway, back to enjoying GameCube stuff and not worrying about bots

[Andross89]

For personal reasons, I prefer to access websites through Firefox 45.

Thank God, I don't need to add this site to Thorium's list. I hope this stays the case forever.

[Emukixtrems]

I was worried, but everything went back to normal.
There's a lot of GameCube documentation on this forum. We can't afford to lose it.

[sakax]

The spam accounts are annoying - no possibility to enable manual activation of new accounts? There will some delays to have new users being activated but at least these spam messages will be reduced?

[emu_kidid]

The spam accounts are annoying - no possibility to enable manual activation of new accounts? There will some delays to have new users being activated but at least these spam messages will be reduced?

I've updated the registration questions and that seems to have stopped them (late Dec). But those will need to be rotated again to new questions. I'd rather have some extreme captcha before I go down the path of manual registrations, because those will also get spammed hard and require me to look at them anyway.