Forum: Slow access issues
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- Tim Green
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Forum: Slow access issues
Over the last few days you may have noticed that accessing the forum was painfully slow. It took a while to track down the cause, but it turned out to be a couple of marketing search spider bots, Ahrefs and Semrush, which were both hammering the forum with thousands of page reads. I've now completely blocked all the known IP addresses and user agents of these bots and this appears to have solved the problem.
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Tim (EC Software Documentation & User Support)
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Tim (EC Software Documentation & User Support)
Private support:
Please do not email or PM me with private support requests -- post to the forum directly.
- Darren Rose
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Re: Forum: Slow access issues
Great work, I had indeed noticed yesterday it was painfully slow to load some of the new posts