I upgraded the server and increased the number or processes handling requests. As a result, the site seem much more stable now but traffic is also down. I’m going to make some further changes on the server either tonight or Monday.
Problems accessing the website
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It’s a little better but I’ll need to look into it more. I really dislike having to shell out another $30/month for bot traffic but we might have to do that.
Dave Jensen, Founder of Axis & Allies .org
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I upgraded the CPU and it seems to help.
It look like the bytedance crawler is hammering the site.
I’ll keep an eye on things but it feels better now.
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just got a 503 fwiw
It is Sunday. maybe a lot of people on site :)
Thanks for looking into this
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@barnee I think I have to try to filter the spam requests next.
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I noticed slowness and memory issues again so I upgraded the server again. I think we were running at $144/year (for this particular server) now we’re at $336.
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So far so good 🤞
I’m going to get technical. It looks like the problem was that we were running out of memory resulting in paging memory to disk. That, apparently, would also cause the CPU to spike. Now that we have more memory, no more paging and the CPU is also in better shape.
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@barnee said in Problems accessing the website:
nice :)
What did you do to create more memory ?
He spent money. He is hosting the website on a cloud system (probably Amazon). You can have all of the memory and CPU you are willing to pay for.
So, if you like the new and improved performance, please donate. Dave said this new performance level is more than twice as expensive as what he was paying for previously.
-Midnight_Reaper
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ahh I thought he removed some old forum games like he did before.
I donate every year
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you should donate more.
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