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 by ringofyre » Mon Jul 21, 2025 6:20 pm
Quote: General Error
SQL ERROR [ postgres ]
Errno 2: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: ERROR: no more connections allowed (max_client_conn) at [ROOT]/includes/db/postgres.php line 108 []
An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.
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Milhouse Van Houten
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by Armac25 » Mon Jul 21, 2025 7:14 pm
Same.
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by fourkite » Mon Jul 21, 2025 10:27 pm
The Error says "no more connections allowed" Looks like there's a bump in traffic. Someone maybe hotlinking out to other forums, or maybe more web crawlers/scrapers? I noticed this at the bottom of the main page that has the user stats, today (half an hour ago) having most users online. Quote: In total there are 3916 users online :: 7 registered, 5 hidden and 3904 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 4290 on Mon Jul 21, 2025 8:50 pm
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by ringofyre » Tue Jul 22, 2025 12:23 am
Getting ddos'd maybe?
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Milhouse Van Houten
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by wolverine » Tue Jul 22, 2025 1:53 am
Yep, something along those lines. It's hard to tell what is going on exactly, there's so much noise in the logs. Traffic seems to originate from Brazil so some sort of bot attack. I've made some changes within CloudFlare to slow it down, it seems to be helping.
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by ringofyre » Tue Jul 22, 2025 11:29 am
Not wanting to be the whinger but...
Might need to eventually dial back the frequency of cloudflare challenges. If I'm off the site for more than about 10 min I get a new captcha challenge.
Don't get me wrong tho - it's defo fixed the bot attack.
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by ringofyre » Tue Jul 22, 2025 6:57 pm
Looks like the gptbot attack is going well!
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by ringofyre » Sun Jul 27, 2025 11:47 am
Quote: In total there are 12926 users online :: 10 registered, 1 hidden and 12915 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)
Most users ever online was 13841 on Sun Jul 27, 2025 12:57 am Getting hammered again. I'd be talking to your hosts at this point - a lot of hosting services *should* have ddos protection builtin and as part of the service. EDIT: Probably part of your contract that they have to guarantee a certain amount (%) of uptime and speed of response to issues.
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by wolverine » Sun Jul 27, 2025 7:57 pm
They do but this is not the usual DDOS attack. Some script kiddie is trying to siphon out every image we host on the website the hard way - poor server is struggling to reply to these otherwise normal requests. The sheer variety of angles they are trying to exploit is interesting - it's been a game of cat and mouse for the last week. We'll keep trying to fend them off.
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