Slow Forums: PF Under DDOS Attack

Lancelot59

Seems to be running fine to me.

danR

Has been going very slow (pages take a long time to display) for the past couple of days on Mac Safari/Opera/FF. I've checked other vBulletin run sites (medical, Engineering), no problems, lightning-fast.

Then, it has its moments where everything is back to normal.

I've tried clearing cookies, cache, browsing (not signed in). No difference.

Addendum: I'm also in a university area, with exceptionally good internet service, on a very reliable ISP. I have never had an internet issue in 2 years. I had a Safari upgrade a week or so ago, but that doesn't explain Opera/FF anyway.

Ivan92

I have been running on Mac Safari and no pages have been loading slowly these last couple of days.

Studiot

Was very slow about 10 days ago but been fine more recently.

South West UK.

Perhaps it's like a tide or other periodic phenomenon moving around the globe?

Nik_2213

Tonight's running slower than usual, IMHO.
(NW UK)

Lancelot59

I got 504'd while going to the reply input today.

FeDeX_LaTeX

No problems here.

Thanks for this, this was a good read.

Ben Niehoff

The last few days, pages have been loading incredibly slow. They hang on loading the ads. So either some advertiser out there has coded their Flash in some stupid way that causes it to hang, or the ad server itself is having problems. My guess would be with the former.

But in either case, this is not a DDoS attack. It's some stupid ad programmer who doesn't care whether the page his ad is displayed on is actually able to load.

Greg Bernhardt

http://www.physicsforums.com/payments.php

DaveC426913

ba-zing!

Jack21222

Ads? What ads?

http://adblockplus.org/en/

dlgoff

I don't see ads either.

Borek

502 Bad Gateway again

Char. Limit

I got one too. Seems like I've been getting them for a while, actually.

Hootenanny

Same here

rhody

No bad Gateway here, just slow to load, can't do any advanced searches and hitting main pages was very slow, between 6:00 - 6:30 am EDT.

Rhody...

Borek

And again. Note there is a half an hour gap in posts at PF between 12:30 and 13:00 PM my time (that is, last half an hour). Earlier there were posts every few minutes, which suggests it was a problem with PF, not with my link.

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