Topic: Connecting to BCTalk.org - page 3. (Read 5174 times)

These issues should be resolved for now.

The periodic downtime and slowness (including the recent ~30 minute outage) was due to the forum's previous anti-DDoS provider x4b.net. I used them because they're the only company I've found that offers the security of GRE tunnels at a reasonable price, but clearly it's not worthwhile. Finally I decided that the downtime was unacceptable and ditched them. For now I've set up a basic temporary anti-DDoS thing until I find a better alternative.

In the coming weeks there might be downtime as I try out various services.

Top-tier anti-DDoS companies charge several thousand dollars per month for GRE tunneling. The forum can afford this, but it still seems awfully high. If you know how to more affordably protect against DDoS attacks, let me know. I am not an expert in network engineering. (Is there some way to do something similar to anycast without having an AS number, maybe?) Note that the most popular solutions (like Cloudflare) are no good because:
- For security, I don't want to give the anti-DDoS service the forum's HTTPS private key unless there are strong legal agreements preventing them from misusing it.
- To reduce annoyances (especially for users of NoScript or Tor), I don't want the anti-DDoS service to modify forum pages in any way.
- I need user IP addresses. These are integral to the forum's anti-abuse measures.

This has happened quite often to me over the past month or two.  It will last for about five minutes and then be okay for another five.  It seems when it happens it lasts for quite a long time.

happened to me a few times,and it really annoys me,i cant login to the site for 15 - 30 minutes and say the site is down
i really dont know what the hell is taking to fix the site,to be perfect

I had not so much problems today but when i clicked on reply the forum loaded veeerrryy slow...

Anyway... i started to go through the forum now with 2 tabs. While i leave the one tab i let the next side load and read the thread on the other, then repeating. It saves time i otherwise will lose.

So far 503 happens even without having accessed faster than 1 second.

Edit: Nice post id. When the last 2 would have spread into two ones then it would be perfect.

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This is the slowest website I can stand to use. Either it times out or just runs horribly slow...why can it not be fixed? Whoever is hosting this forum obviously is not equipped to handle it. Please find a decent provider or do something.

I've been having issues too. Sometimes it just says it can't connect, but sometimes it mentions the security....

Happened to me as well and just got a downtime of 1hr just minutes ago. Verified by isitdown site.

Broke as fuck, surprised when any of my replies actually post immediately.

Yeah, I can confirm this as well. I've encountered slow reload times several times today and sometimes the errors.
Yeah, but I have never loaded 20 pages in the same second, but did experience problems a lot of times. Something is definitely up with the servers. The forum was down for ~10 minutes the other night.

Today is worse for me today than the last several.

sorry for bumping the thread. but I want to ask if this still happens to anyone else. the connection just got a lot worse for me since yesterday.

Theymos,

It would be nice to know if you see any indication that these ongoing problems could be attributable to issues on your end or not (e.g., obvious DOS or whatever.)  As someone who is chronically paranoid about global scale monitoring and systems such as quantum inserts and such, it would be interesting information to me.

BTW, I know with some certainty that my ISP (Viasat or at least someone upstream) can and occasionally does do deep packet inspection and injections.

i just got a 503 error refreshed and it came back then run into another one a few minutes after

Yes, thats what i meant. Loading 20 pages in the same second should trigger the ddos protection but that doesnt explain this coming up in normal browsing. So either the ddos protection is set up too hard or the server is really overloaded or so.

what is this BCtalk. This site 
I would usually just say "this forum" or just spell it out.
I don't go to sites I am unfamiliar with after clicking on bitcoinforum on some's thread from here.

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure it takes you more than a second to switch tabs and click refresh (it is definitely more than a second; it's not like I'm trying to reload everything as fast as possible). Those requests usually process (10-20 of them) in a minute.
Shouldn't the forum be much faster than this even though I'm allowed 1 request per second?

While those pages are reloading, if I open another tab or try reloading something else I instantly get a 503 error (sometimes some of the pages that were reloading get a 503 as well).

This is persistently happening in my case for some weeks now, and I just get used to it. I can load other pages perfectly fine; I can even watch 1080p videos without buffering but whenever I try to refresh bitcointalk.org, it just take ages for it to load, sometimes displaying "The Webpage cannot be displayed" screen. Tried 4 different browsers, but the problem still persists.

Same here.  Viasat connectivity.

Guys this has been happening to me for the pass 4 days