Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Announcements => Topic started by: cdbearsfan on September 03, 2025, 12:24:54 PM
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Is the site slow lately? Pages seem to be taking a while to load. Wasn't sure if some update shenanigans was under way or if it's my Wi-Fi. Haven't noticed problems with other sites, so maybe I have just been a bit banned.
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I was getting 'bad gateway' messages earlier, and pages wouldn't load. I am highly incompetent though.
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Same.
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I've had problems a few times since yesterday morning but it seems fine right now.
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S.......a.......m........e........
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Me too.
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I was wondering the same thing.
So, it’s not The Deep State, then
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Ditto
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It was slow for me earlier but seems to have sorted itself out
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I’ve been blaming my phone. It usually is.
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Really slow again now
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Yep, very slow. All browsers I’ve tried, no different.
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Yes very slow for me too - which on the plus side means I might actually go to sleep at a normal time.
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It has been a bit slow at times today, but at least it's not transfer deadline day, and no 'biggie' has died.
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It sped up last night and then has gone slow again.
I reckon one of the servers is slow and the other quick!
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I reckon one of the servers is slow and the other quick!
It's like watching Nadal play Kyrgios.
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I reckon Monchi did it.
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It’s due to all this rain and wind. Nothing new in that as even trains slow down in this sort of weather.
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Slowing again for me.
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Same here.
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Yes, at times.
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Painfully right now.
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As it is now.
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And now
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For me too.
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For a while now the server has been continually hit with login attempts. It got to such a point this morning that the logs, that record the login attempts, had used up all of our disk space on the server.
This also had the effect of locking me out of the server and it has taken most of today to get the server to reboot so l could access it.
Once rebooted l found that the forum had corrupt messages_table which also had to be repaired.
I cannot say if the the login attempts has contributed to the slowness some have experienced, but it may have done.
I will now arrange to move the forum to another server host in the next few days (one that answers their ticket system l hope!).
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Thanks Martin. Appreciate it! I tell you what, since back on it's lightning quick!
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Thank you!
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Thanks for sorting Martin.
It felt weird not being able to get on H&V.
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Thank you, Martin.
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Thanks from me too Martin.
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Cheers, Martin. Sounds like the problem was caused by VillaTim trying to log back in.
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Thanks for sorting it!
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Thank you from me too.
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This reminds me I need to cough up some cash again to support the site. These things don't fall magically from the sky. Thanks Martin!
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Thank you Martin, what a day you’ve had!
Feet up, find a film and chill! 😎
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Thank you Martin. It’s reminded me I need to send some money which I seem to have completely overlooked.
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Thanks for sorting things out Martin
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Thanks for your hard work today Martin, it’s appreciated
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Nothing to do with site speed, but just in case it affects anything on here or complaints of missing images from posts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo
Imgur blocks access to UK users after regulator warned of fine
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I'm guessing the 30k of bots / DDOS attack is the reason for the slowness.
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It's been extremely slow for me tonight and went down completely this morning during the England game.
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It's been extremely slow for me tonight and went down completely this morning during the England game.
I have a feeling an early morning backup kicked off this morning during thr England game as there are usuaully only insomniac saddos and the odd antipodean missionary to notice.
Tonight seems to have been a bot/ ddos attack as we normally have around 1500-2500 on and we have 30k at the moment with an all-time peak of 34k at 1630 today.
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Below 25,000 and the speed's back to normal.
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Hurrah.
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What do they do it for, to try to charge a ransom?
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What do they do it for, to try to charge a ransom?
Are you taking the piss?
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I looked it up on Wikipedia and that's what they suggested. It did seem an odd target.
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It's been extremely slow for me tonight and went down completely this morning during the England game.
I have a feeling an early morning backup kicked off this morning during thr England game as there are usuaully only insomniac saddos and the odd antipodean missionary to notice.
Tonight seems to have been a bot/ ddos attack as we normally have around 1500-2500 on and we have 30k at the moment with an all-time peak of 34k at 1630 today.
I bet the Leeds site had more ;) :D
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Most DDOS are trolling. Maybe a Bloser did it as a larf. I think the one time we were hacked off line several years ago, it might have been alluded that a rival team supporter did it.
But it could also be down the bots who log on occaisionally. When they are blocked the programmer might not have done a timeout on tries for connection and it might spawn extra tries until the figure hits 30k entities and fucks up the site.
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Ta.