forum.joomla.org very slow/timeouts/HTTP 500: December 2017

[sozzled]

I've noticed that over the past 24-48 hours the browser response from the forum site has become extremely erratic to the point where we might be concerned that there's some kind of DoS in effect. Quite apart from the current weather situation in SE Australia—I note that I don't have any other internet connectivity problems with other websites that I routinely visit—I'm finding it increasingly difficult to refresh pages here, post messages on the forum and I'm not getting notification of updates to the topics that I'm subscribed to; my email address (used here) is working fine with other places where I use it in a similar way.

Known problem? Hmmm?

[frostmakk]

It's the same in Norway, Europe.
Most requests just time out.

[Achaa]

FYI
Same here in UK.

[Webdongle]

Same here west mids uk

[effrit]

middle of Russia - same problem.
seems like ddos. i guess ip block for bots needed at least.

[sozzled]

Thanks, guys, for confirming that this seems to be a world-wide phenomenon. I'm still not receiving emails from subscribed topics and I'm still experiencing timeouts.

I hope someone is looking into the matter.

[Webdongle]

...

I hope someone is looking into the matter.

They might now I've reported you're post And reported an issue by clicking 'report issue' on the menu below

[ooffick]

Hi

Just a quick update, we are aware of the issue and trying to resolve it as soon as possible.

I am sorry about the inconvenience.

Kind regards
Olaf

[sozzled]

I can report that there's been a world of improvement in the past 6-12 hours. Thanks.

[Webdongle]

Slight improvement here and have to keep logging in a lot of the time.

[deleted user]

Rochen and our CDN provider were working on a fix for the forum's issues specifically yesterday, doing so caused a short outage on the other .org properties but once that fix was in place things have generally been much more stable (here on the forum and the other sites as well).

[Webdongle]

Not much difference here

[ooffick]

Hi,

Can you try again, and see if it has improved now. It looks better from here now. But keep us updated if you continue to have major issues.

Kind Regards
Olaf

[effrit]

hi.
page loaded in 2-3 seconds now, so seems it's OK.
thanks.

[Webdongle]

Ok I found all pages a little slower than normal and speedtest was slow so rebooted my laptop rather than 'shut down' (I sometimes do that if I have been running localhost). On reboot the laptop said configuring windows don't turn off etc. Forum appears fast and stable here now.