Cannot believe how long it is taking to go from one thread to another. Anyone else affected by this? Also noticed 1363 guests? Hmmmmmm
Craig
My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
I just got on here after getting a failure notice saying files were missing when I went to the home page and then clicked on the Forums tab.
Currently says me and two other members online, 1162 guests, and 0 robots.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
An update to the issue this morning. Took me over 4 minutes to get the main forum page to load just so I could click on the sign in link. Another 2+ minutes to actually get signed in and each page change/activity taking anywhere from 30-60+ seconds to happen. The only thing that seems to happen quickly is if I hit my browser back button. It takes me back to the previous page, but doesn't show that I've viewed/read the post or forum I was looking at and doesn't display a reply I posted. Those changes don't show up until hitting the refresh, which again takes 30-60+ seconds for things to happen.
7 members currently on line and "guests" count when I signed on was hovering around 500+, fluctuating with each page change up to over 700+ at the moment.
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
On the very high "guest" count numbers, after seeing the numbers jump up to over 1200 a little while ago, I took some screen shots to highlight repetitive IPs and their sources.
As seen in the time stamped screen shots below, at one point there were 506 "guests" originating from IPs 47.79.xxx.xxx, all listed as coming from Alibaba Cloud LLC (a known Chinese company) out of Singapore. Of those at one point there were 34 different IPs beginning with "47.79." reading the very same thread.
The next screenshot shows a second search highlighting 408 "guests" originating from IPs 146.174.xxx.xxx, all listed as coming from Huawei International Pte. (also a Chinese company) out of Singapore too.
Between the two "Datacenter" ISPs, they accounted for 914 "guests" of the 1200 or so "guests" on our site. Just IMHO, but I don't think these are valid "guests". More like unwelcome pests that I'd like to see go away.
Edit for added info: A random "what's my IP" check of over 20 of the Alibaba IPs all showed them to be "blacklisted" for spam activity.
Last edited by Gdads51; 07/20/20253:39 PM. Reason: added edit for more info
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
I wondered if it was because of the increase in traffic. We continue to have a good number for "Most on Line" ... twice bumped up in only a few days.
~ Peggy M 1949 Chevrolet 3804 "Charlie" - The Stovebolt Flagship In the Gallery "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill
