Temperamental site access.

[WelshGas]

Over the past 7-10 days accessing the site from my iMac, iPad or Android phone has become increasingly temperamental. Frequently an error message “ Site cannot be reached - Reload “ or a screen as below.
Done all the usual things Clear Cache etc, different Browsers without change.
Other sites such as BBC, T6 Forum and the T4 Forum do not have this problem.

Anyone else noticed anything similar.?

 

[Dave bee]

I’ve had exactly the same over the last week or so, most recently being yesterday. It didn’t do I today as I left it on the message when I tried to get in and was still showing when I opened the page today. Definitely something wrong, I’m sure we won’t be alone!!!

 

[WelshGas]

I’ve had exactly the same over the last week or so, most recently being yesterday. It didn’t do I today as I left it on the message when I tried to get in and was still showing when I opened the page today. Definitely something wrong, I’m sure we won’t be alone!!!

Thank you. I’m glad it’s not just me .

 

[calikev]

Just spoke to our web guy his reply

Yeah ive been monitoring it mate, more bot attacks, saturates the resources for a minute before the firewalls catch up. It's not the typical type of attack though so harder to stop it, most of the time it falls over when there is an attack at the same time the backups run as there is alot of processing power being used
yeah just a matter of being there when its at its worse to monitor it , as obviously 99% of the time its fast as lighting which doesnt tell us much when its like that ( like now )

All over, which is what makes it harder as we can't simply block one country or IP range. There is a server update later so hopefully this will help

 

[kpttnuts-beach]

I've had the same thing over the last week or so...I ended up using old bookmarked links to get it to load normally...that was on an iPhone, been fine on Mac for me, both using chrome as the web browser.

 

[Chriskend]

Me too, have to screen refresh or reload on the iPad, not tried it on the laptop tho.

 

[sidepod]

Plus one for me. I assumed it was just my outdated iphone starting to play silly buggers.

 

[Betsycalifornia]

Just spoke to our web guy his reply

Yeah ive been monitoring it mate, more bot attacks, saturates the resources for a minute before the firewalls catch up. It's not the typical type of attack though so harder to stop it, most of the time it falls over when there is an attack at the same time the backups run as there is alot of processing power being used
yeah just a matter of being there when its at its worse to monitor it , as obviously 99% of the time its fast as lighting which doesnt tell us much when its like that ( like now )

All over, which is what makes it harder as we can't simply block one country or IP range. There is a server update later so hopefully this will help

Just my two Penneth in case it hasn’t been considered, can the web guy check the most common referrer header string used by the bots and if it’s unusual or as is often the case, blank, filter traffic on that?

 

[Chriskend]

It’s running on cloudflare….. easily sorted, if that is the issue

 

[Chriskend]

Seems to be getting worse

 

[cpaharley2008]

Yeah I've been getting the same issues on my Android, thought it was just my rubbish internet connection at first! Good to know it's being looked into.

 

[calikev]

Yeah it’s more about monitoring all traffic during the 2 or 3 min bursts, I’ve filtered out a lot of ranges and ASIN tonight as origin pretends to be an Indian hit, but we know it’s spread across multiple ASINs as the country code blocks alone don’t consider it as a county based IP.

Referrer header strings and blank strings are basic detections compared to what’s being monitored.

If it was a consistent hit, it would be easy, but 2 min bursts to saturate the upstream is harder to log when each burst has different footprints.

Nothing we haven’t seen before though, just takes a bit of firewall tweaking and blocking

Ultimately the firewall is already doing its job, we just want to match the pattern instantly rather than the firewall playing catch up after a few mins