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drmcw
 


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phpBB: Critical Error, intermittently

Noticed this a couple of times in the last few days. Seems to be intermittent but am getting occasional;

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database
  
Post #236751826th Apr 2024 8:31 am
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NJSS
 


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Yes - I have seen it on a number of occasions recently.



I wonder what is causing it?

NJSS
  
Post #236752126th Apr 2024 8:46 am
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WOODY179
 


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I've had it a 3 or 4 times over the last few days, but refreshing the page usually results in the page displaying correctly.
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2002 Discovery 2 TD5 ES Buckingham Blue, sold
2005 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Adriatic Blue, sold
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Post #236757026th Apr 2024 2:07 pm
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Martin
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We are under pressure from bots which is overloading the server/database, I'm working on blocking them.
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Post #236757426th Apr 2024 2:41 pm
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RRSTDV8
 


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Likewise, several instances recently.

Opera 108.0.5067.29 on Windows 11 Pro 23H2
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Post #236757526th Apr 2024 2:42 pm
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Martin
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Not browser related, server issue
 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
Any issues with the site let me know! 
 
Post #236757626th Apr 2024 2:42 pm
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kajtzu
 


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Not sure on the exact environment you’re working with but have you thought of putting cloudflare or something similar in front of the website? It tends to be useful for most people. Pretty good at detecting whether human or bot as well as mitigate the normal DDoS, both volumetric or protocol specific, stuff.
  
Post #236757726th Apr 2024 2:59 pm
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kajtzu
 


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Or if that is too invasive, perhaps the Turnstile service would work instead? See https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/, there is a free plan which does not have volume limits.
  
Post #236757826th Apr 2024 3:08 pm
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Pete K
 


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been seeing this.

Just happened again now.
  
Post #236768628th Apr 2024 10:28 am
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Martin
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I Will report back when resolved, so this should be considered ongoing at the moment.
 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
Any issues with the site let me know! 
 
Post #236769528th Apr 2024 11:22 am
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Martin
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Have investigated this and discovered Censored Face Censored book hoovering up gallery images at an site-breaking rate Censored OFF!

This basically caused a denial-of-service to the site database, knocking the forum offline.

To mitigate this I have, for the moment, taken the gallery pages offline.

Uploading images via the forum still works.

I have implemented Cloudflare in front of the site as suggested, but interestingly there seem limited ways to block or rate limit Facebook specifically using Cloudflare tools. I guess FB pay too much Rolling Eyes
 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
Any issues with the site let me know! 
 
Post #23684198th May 2024 2:41 pm
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pjm-84
 


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Cheers Martin,

Never donated and thought it would be a good time for a donation and then finally noted the donate tab! Now done!
  
Post #237099313th Jun 2024 8:45 am
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Martin
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This is now ongoing with Facebook not respecting limits and knocking the site offline.
 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
Any issues with the site let me know! 
 
Post #237100713th Jun 2024 12:53 pm
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Can you send them a big bill for your time, effort and stress?
   
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PROFSR G
 


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It takes quite a few attempts to find a gap between the "bots" to post or execute a command, but it does get there.... eventually.

One of the many reasons I have banned anything to do with Ars@Book for years now. WhatsApp excluded Rolling Eyes
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