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dweller
(27,387 posts)that you mention it , yep
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cbabe
(5,770 posts)bamagal62
(4,210 posts)LoisB
(11,870 posts)AnotherMother4Peace
(4,917 posts)Drum
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niyad
(128,000 posts)not surprised.
herding cats
(19,868 posts)You are definitely not alone!
dlilafae
(338 posts)Running slow, too!
DelMar dem
(65 posts)Very slow.
highplainsdem
(58,729 posts)EarlG
(23,213 posts)Once our servers can't handle the number of incoming requests, the response time gradually increases, until responses are not received quickly enough by visitors' browsers and you see the "time out" error.
I know that everyone always jumps to "DDOS" when this happens, but there's usually a far more mundane technical explanation. Right now, we seem to be getting a huge surge in unwanted search engine crawler traffic. We're looking into why this is happening and how to mitigate it, but as of just now we've temporarily blocked some of those crawlers, and since then we've been able to turn off "members-only" mode and the site seems to be running fine.
We're still working on it on the back end, but hopefully from the perspective of the site visitor, things seem to be running okay again now.