Is any one else experiencing 502 Bad Gateway Error on this forum
Brian
Web site
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Not me, but it is very very slow to load this afternoon.
Mike
Edit - yes, just as I tried to post this.
Mike
Edit - yes, just as I tried to post this.
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Getting 502 Bad Gateway again today 
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like wise here since last night
73 John
73 John
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Hi Brian,
I am getting the Bad Gateway 502 message frequently, even a few minutes ago.
The Forum is slow in response when I manage to get access.
Sometimes it works normally.
This has been going on for quite a while now but not only here in northern Germany.
Wolfgang.
I am getting the Bad Gateway 502 message frequently, even a few minutes ago.
The Forum is slow in response when I manage to get access.
Sometimes it works normally.
This has been going on for quite a while now but not only here in northern Germany.
Wolfgang.
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Yes several times lately, also other forums are having problems not sure if they are related but wondering if there is a lot of network AI bot activity happening?
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The BATC Forum (like many other similar forums) is regularly being mined for information by artifical intelligence bots. Unfortunately, they do this by demanding a large number of pages at once, thus overloading our server. This makes the forum unavailable to regular users causing the Bad Gateway error.
Commercial forums get around this by using services such as CloudFlare to mitigate the effect of the attacks, but these services or either costly or complicated to set up and maintain. Especially so when we co-host the shop, wiki and streamer on the same server.
Given that our administrative resources (expert time) and funds are limited, we are blocking individual bots after attacks start to try to maintain capability. Today we have set up automated monitoring so that we can respond quicker.
If anyone has the linux and networking skills to assist us in maintaining a multi-container linux server with diverse services on it, please could they get in touch with any committee member.
Thanks
Dave, G8GKQ
Commercial forums get around this by using services such as CloudFlare to mitigate the effect of the attacks, but these services or either costly or complicated to set up and maintain. Especially so when we co-host the shop, wiki and streamer on the same server.
Given that our administrative resources (expert time) and funds are limited, we are blocking individual bots after attacks start to try to maintain capability. Today we have set up automated monitoring so that we can respond quicker.
If anyone has the linux and networking skills to assist us in maintaining a multi-container linux server with diverse services on it, please could they get in touch with any committee member.
Thanks
Dave, G8GKQ