Attack on Saintsational
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Attack on Saintsational
Many of you may have noticed that over the past 5 days the site has been under attack by spammers.
Some of these attacks have maxed out our RAM on the virtual server and taken the site down.
I hope to have overcome this by increasing the RAM we can access.
I am not sure it will fix the outages but I hope so.
As for the spammers - settings have been changed to hopefully keep them at bay for a while!
Simon
Some of these attacks have maxed out our RAM on the virtual server and taken the site down.
I hope to have overcome this by increasing the RAM we can access.
I am not sure it will fix the outages but I hope so.
As for the spammers - settings have been changed to hopefully keep them at bay for a while!
Simon
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
Block and ban Numpty please. He is real life spambot. Bit of a conicidence if you ask me too.BackFromUSA wrote:Many of you may have noticed that over the past 5 days the site has been under attack by spammers.
Some of these attacks have maxed out our RAM on the virtual server and taken the site down.
I hope to have overcome this by increasing the RAM we can access.
I am not sure it will fix the outages but I hope so.
As for the spammers - settings have been changed to hopefully keep them at bay for a while!
Simon
Good work too.
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
ParkeySainter
You can block numpty yourself if you do not enjoy his / her attempt at humour.
Click on USER CONTROL PANEL at top of your page
Click on FRIENDS AND FOES option in the top menu tab
And you can list him / her as a FOE there and it will block their direct posts and PMs.
Thanks
Simon
p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.
You can block numpty yourself if you do not enjoy his / her attempt at humour.
Click on USER CONTROL PANEL at top of your page
Click on FRIENDS AND FOES option in the top menu tab
And you can list him / her as a FOE there and it will block their direct posts and PMs.
Thanks
Simon
p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
When deciphered, most Numpty posts seem to be aimed at one poster...sooooo...you know the rules...BackFromUSA wrote:p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
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.name the ways , thought manipulates the State of Presence away.
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
Agreed that recent posts have been baiting one poster and a warning was issued already this morning for baiting.degruch wrote:When deciphered, most Numpty posts seem to be aimed at one poster...sooooo...you know the rules...BackFromUSA wrote:p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
Fair enough and I have blocked him. Its a shame he/she spams and ruins threads for everyone on here though. That is my point. Numpty is about as funny as cancer itself.BackFromUSA wrote:ParkeySainter
You can block numpty yourself if you do not enjoy his / her attempt at humour.
Click on USER CONTROL PANEL at top of your page
Click on FRIENDS AND FOES option in the top menu tab
And you can list him / her as a FOE there and it will block their direct posts and PMs.
Thanks
Simon
p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.
I kind of feel sorry for him. You hear about these loser trolls with no life that float around the internet - he/she is a prime example of one.
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
I really like him. Pity you do not appreciate his humor. I like Clay Davis too.parkeysainter wrote:Fair enough and I have blocked him. Its a shame he/she spams and ruins threads for everyone on here though. That is my point. Numpty is about as funny as cancer itself.BackFromUSA wrote:ParkeySainter
You can block numpty yourself if you do not enjoy his / her attempt at humour.
Click on USER CONTROL PANEL at top of your page
Click on FRIENDS AND FOES option in the top menu tab
And you can list him / her as a FOE there and it will block their direct posts and PMs.
Thanks
Simon
p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.
I kind of feel sorry for him. You hear about these loser trolls with no life that float around the internet - he/she is a prime example of one.
Nothing better than a good Dad Joke.
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
Yeahmagnifisaint wrote:Sounds like a good movie
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
Hey Simon, it might be worth configuring recaptcha to stop accounts being generated automatically https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... a-captcha/
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
personally like Numpty.degruch wrote:When deciphered, most Numpty posts seem to be aimed at one poster...sooooo...you know the rules...BackFromUSA wrote:p.s. calling for another poster to be banned is against the rules. Just report posts that you feel breach the rules and they will be assessed. Trying to be humorous is not against the rules.
pretty funny.
Not sure who is baiting who really.
As stated, if you dont like him or think he is making not so subtle political statements that you dont agree with, just put him on ignore
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
Already done and have 4 rotating questions so even if they google or guess an answer it slows down their registration rate. Thinking of increasing the questions to 8 or 10 to slow it down. But it is the spiders and bots that they use that are causing the site usage surges causing the crashes by exceeding the VPS allowance. So I have banned all bots and spiders for now including google, yahoo and bing for now.saint-stu wrote:Hey Simon, it might be worth configuring recaptcha to stop accounts being generated automatically https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... a-captcha/
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
An image based captcha would stop bots registering. Are the bots registering or just browsing?BackFromUSA wrote:Already done and have 4 rotating questions so even if they google or guess an answer it slows down their registration rate. Thinking of increasing the questions to 8 or 10 to slow it down. But it is the spiders and bots that they use that are causing the site usage surges causing the crashes by exceeding the VPS allowance. So I have banned all bots and spiders for now including google, yahoo and bing for now.saint-stu wrote:Hey Simon, it might be worth configuring recaptcha to stop accounts being generated automatically https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... a-captcha/
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
This one looks OK
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... &t=1795905
https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... &t=1795905
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Re: Attack on Numpty
How did my name get dragged into this thread, folks???? ? ? wrote:Block and ban Numpty please. He is real life spambot. Bit of a conicidence if you ask me too.BackFromUSA wrote:Many of you may have noticed that over the past 5 days the site has been under attack by spammers.
Some of these attacks have maxed out our RAM on the virtual server and taken the site down.
I hope to have overcome this by increasing the RAM we can access.
I am not sure it will fix the outages but I hope so.
As for the spammers - settings have been changed to hopefully keep them at bay for a while!
Simon
Good work too.
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
if anyone notices any outages of more than 5 minutes PLEASE post the time it happened here!
I think I have solved the bot and spam account problem ... for now.
A few questionable new members still for past 5 or 6 days ... which I shall leave just in case they are legit ... which I doubt BUT just in case.
I think I have solved the bot and spam account problem ... for now.
A few questionable new members still for past 5 or 6 days ... which I shall leave just in case they are legit ... which I doubt BUT just in case.
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if anyone notices any outages of more than 5 minutes PLEASE post the time it happened here!
I think I have solved the bot and spam account problem ... for now.
A few questionable new members still for past 5 or 6 days ... which I shall leave just in case they are legit ... which I doubt BUT just in case.
I think I have solved the bot and spam account problem ... for now.
A few questionable new members still for past 5 or 6 days ... which I shall leave just in case they are legit ... which I doubt BUT just in case.
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
Are we still under attack? This site keeps playing up for me. It happened again before about 9.30pm ish ESDT
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
This site seems to shut down the same time every night (time depends on whether its daylight savings or not too). Guessing the forum reboots or something like that automatically.Jacks Back wrote:Are we still under attack? This site keeps playing up for me. It happened again before about 9.30pm ish ESDT
Its possible it just deletes all of Con G's posts every night because they're so bad.
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Re: Attack on Saintsational
Checking into it. Seems to reboot around und 9pm but down for a long time.
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Okay thanks guys. I remember you telling me that before but that's just the time I get on the computer after watching the telly. (I know, I live the high life). ![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
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As ex-president Peter Summers said:
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“If we are going to be a contender, we may as well plan to win the bloody thing.”
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They do a nightly update around 9pm but it usually takes less than 5 minutes but for some reason it seems to be taking up to a half hour
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