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[0face]

This thread looks like it is about student proctologists preparing for prostate exams. It is the fact that they are all smiling that is alarming.

As long as there's not a hand on each shoulder during the exam you should be fine...

[bigjohnsd]

This thread looks like it is about student proctologists preparing for self administered prostate exams. It is the fact that they are all smiling that is alarming.

Fixed it for you.

[CollingsBob]

This thread looks like it is about student proctologists preparing for self administered prostate exams. It is the fact that they are all smiling that is alarming.

Fixed it for you.

Hmmmm…based on that comment I’m reconsidering sharing a hotel room with you..

[extrememarine]

Site performance seems stable today.

Now, back to working on that IP block protocol for that small corner of sou.....

Seriously though - chime in here with a date / time of when if you get that SQL error again please...

Wayne

[wheatonFJR]

Thanks Wayne!

[FJRoss]

I have noticed that forum page loads have been quite slow the last couple of days and a fair number of general errors.
Anyone else seeing this?

General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

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An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.

[extrememarine]

Update.

Worked through both the host support chat and the more prompt "text a friend" (Thanks Designflaw!!) support last night on this issue.

There was/ is a web scraper hitting the site (actually, most of my websites). We blocked the IP (singapore)and the site recovered (performance wise). This morning I saw the same issue, blocked another IP (this one was from Iowa - is craigsreg a closet hacker now??) and we're back.

I'm traveling for work this afternoon to Indianapolis, so I won't be able to monitor the site this afternoon. I'll check it again when I get to the hotel this evening.

Thank you for your patience...

Wayne

[wheatonFJR]

Craig!!!

[LKLD]

Craig!!!

Yeah, I think he hides his devious side well.

[bigjohnsd]

There was/ is a web scraper hitting the site

For the unknowledgeable, could you please explain what this is/means?

[Pterodactyl]

There was/ is a web scraper hitting the site

For the unknowledgeable, could you please explain what this is/means?

From the all knowing Wikipedia:
“Scraping a web page involves fetching it and then extracting data from it. Fetching is the downloading of a page (which a browser does when a user views a page). Therefore, web crawling is a main component of web scraping, to fetch pages for later processing. Having fetched, extraction can take place. The content of a page may be parsed, searched and reformatted, and its data copied into a spreadsheet or loaded into a database. Web scrapers typically take something out of a page, to make use of it for another purpose somewhere else. An example would be finding and copying names and telephone numbers, companies and their URLs, or e-mail addresses to a list (contact scraping).“

[CraigRegs]

There was/ is a web scraper hitting the site (actually, most of my websites). We blocked the IP (singapore)and the site recovered (performance wise). This morning I saw the same issue, blocked another IP (this one was from Iowa - is craigsreg a closet hacker now??) and we're back.

My dark side refers not only to my rear tire.

All your datas will be mine.

[gixxerjasen]

You blocked the IP's? How on earth will we be able to ask AI how to fix things on Yamaha FJR's if they can't scrape these useful pages?


Or the AI is scraping Wheaties posts to become more effective threadshitters.

[wheatonFJR]

...
Or the AI is scraping Wheaties posts to become more effective threadshitters.

You've had 20 years to figure it out. If you don't have it now, you are dumbshit hopeless and I can't do anything to help ya.

[extrememarine]

What Kevin said.

or - in my own words - asshats in singapore who have nothing better to do that pick a URL (i.e. website) and hammer it (access it) every second with the result in being the site loading errors you saw. Don't ask me why they do it, or how they do it. All I know is that when they do, it makes the site not load, and if I go to one screen in my host dashboard, I can see the IP address numbers they're hitting it from, and in another screen, I can add those numbers to a list, and then they can't get in any longer.

Or - it was broke, and I fixed it (because Tim told me how).

They were probably after your financial and banking data you have stored in your PM inbox...

Wayne

There was/ is a web scraper hitting the site

For the unknowledgeable, could you please explain what this is/means?

[bigjohnsd]

Thanks, Wayne and Kevin - I should have Googled the term myself.