Site Seems Excessively Slow - 5/6/20

[Gman]

Wow. Something changed in the last 5 minutes. Much quicker.

[Gman]

Wow. Something changed in the last 5 minutes. Much quicker.

The glitch is gone. Slow again.

[CS1983]

[Gman]

Oh yeah? My phone sucks!

[buffalobo]

Admins working on it. Be off n on til they get done.

[theGinsue]

You may have noticed the latency has disappeared.

The latency was caused by a serious bot attack on our site. While there are mediations that can be made on a case-by-case basis at the server level, I don't have access to that capability.

To resolve the issue, for the time being, I have turned off Guest access to the site. This means that the only way to view the site is as a registered user who is logged onto the site. If you ever look at the site while not logged in, you won't be able to so that for the time being.

I plan to turn Guest access back on, but I want to give it a little time for the bots to think they can't get in any more.

[Gman]

Thank you!

[StagLefty]

Thanks !!!

[Little Dutch]

Nice, thanks!

[Gman]

Is there a way to use an authenticator to limit bot activity using Guest. Some kind of challenge-response, like CAPTCHA?

(The site is wicked fast right now. I'd hate to give that up. ;-) )