We started seeing heightened loads on the freeCodeCamp.org Discourse on June 21. Our average CPU load started to grow to the point that the entire forum became unresponsive. Our Initial investigation We updated Discourse from the Stable version to the latest Tests-Passed (Beta) version, which is …

I am just going to close the loop here. Discourse are now hosting https://forum.freecodecamp.org/ . The site is ultra snappy, spammer scripts are no longer causing even a blip. We remain somewhat unclear about what issue it had on digital ocean, there may have been a noisy neighbor, the machine may …

freeCodeCamp.org Discourse is Collapsing from Spammer Scripts

Installatie

Topic		Antwoorden	Weergaven
Diagnosing spam attack of 100 topics Feature	34	2906	29 mei 2017
Sucuri reports a malware infection? Support	6	2391	8 juni 2024
Our forum is getting "bamwar" spam Support	35	11311	1 april 2016
Discourse Performance Reports Hosting	17	2770	18 april 2017
Discourse overloaded real traffic or DDOS? 100% CPU usage despite of decent traffic and high specs server Installation server-resources	18	2235	25 september 2021

freeCodeCamp.org Discourse is Collapsing from Spammer Scripts

Gerelateerde topics