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Old 07-08-2024, 11:57 AM
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The site could have just been overloaded. Spiritual Forums is proxied through Cloudflare to help prevent that but this version of vBulletin isn't optimized for Cloudflare so it's still going to take a hit when there is a lot of site traffic.

I might see what I can do to optimize it a little better.
When you say "a lot of site traffic" do you mean traffic as in registered members reading and/or contributing or is it down to some other cause?
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Old 22-08-2024, 11:41 PM
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When you say "a lot of site traffic" do you mean traffic as in registered members reading and/or contributing or is it down to some other cause?

Both registered and non-registered. Non-registered generally always see the same content so I might be able to help by serving them cached content via Cloudflare's cache. I haven't tried that yet though.
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Old 23-08-2024, 09:24 AM
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Both registered and non-registered. Non-registered generally always see the same content so I might be able to help by serving them cached content via Cloudflare's cache. I haven't tried that yet though.
thanks for that

I've regularly noticed at the bottom of the site's home-page are the names of members who have visited that day. Many have decidedly bizarre usernames and often their profiles look decidedly 'iffy'. Many don't look like genuine registrations and I do wonder if they cause issues with the operation of the website.
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Old 23-08-2024, 08:41 PM
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I suspect it's the action of a bot.

I would expect there's a way to require pre-authorisation of applications for membership. That might be easier than trying to delete the many, apparently spurious, bogus applications.

This website is able to be browsed by anyone and those wishing to make a posting could apply in the usual way. There would be just a short delay while their application is approved.
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