Posted - 06/04/2025 : 12:05:03
I took down the forum, Im going to upgrade to the latest version. They found a bunch of bots attacking the site, they banned the ips. But said it's temporary and wants me to join Cloudflare. I signed up, I just dont want to screw it up and take the site down again for 4 days.
Below is the email from the host.
Root Cause: Apache Connection Saturation The core problem is Apache connection exhaustion — the site receives more simultaneous requests than Apache can handle under current limits.
Port 80 + 443 Connection State Sample: TIME_WAIT 1154 SYN_RECV 256 LAST_ACK 135 CLOSE_WAIT 39 These states indicate connections are not being closed efficiently, leading to port exhaustion and causing timeouts for new visitors.
Top IPs Hitting the Website A small group of IPs accounts for a disproportionate share of the traffic:
74 172.56.170.9 72 190.93.96.19 17 51.38.236.51 We recommend evaluating whether these are legitimate users. If not, they should be blocked at the firewall level.
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