Server load problems

[MPC001]

Things appear stable, and user count is about where i'd expect it.

[8SecSleeper]

Every time I have a question related to ECU stuff, ChatGPT references this site. Assuming it has the whole site indexed and all the other AI bots are doing the same thing. I even thought about doing it myself incase it goes down for extended periods. Btw is it a bug, where I get logged out every minute or two and have to keep logging in again?

[antus]

Its not intended. Were behind cloudflare now, its configured to only re-verify weekly but if your internet provider is running carrier grade NAT and you have a shared internet IP address that may be triggering extra verification. I dont have a solution for this. Ive noticed I get rechecked when I move between devices on the home network shareing the same IP.

[Denny]

noticed I get rechecked when I move between devices on the home network shareing the same IP.

Same here.

[vlad01]

My ISP had a shared IP type of deal, I was not able to host any servers outside of my LAN, took me ages to figure that out, the ISP could switch it to a normal dynamic IP when I requested and that worked, so I only get the cloudflare maybe once a week as Antus mentioned on my laptop, sometimes I get it more often on my phone, but it's not always at home on the wifi which makes sense. Many forums and sites I use had cloudflare for many years before here, so I don't even pay attention to it really.

Before I figured out the ISP shared IP thing, it's apparently very common but none of the previous ISPs I used had it, so I never noticed until I started using Aussie broadband, my partner actually used it before we got the new house.

[antus]

Yeah its called carrier grade NAT or CG-NAT. Needed by new players as IPV4 is exhausted. And cloudflare defaults to a really short recheck time but thats overkill, most stupid bots cant pass the basic javascript checks the first time.

[antus]

I changed a couple of forum settings to do with session validation to suit cloudflare proxies better, lets see if that helps to fix any forced logouts.

[antus]

I hit the re-validation today a whole lot trying to send a PM, so I changed some more cloudflare settings. It seems to have helped. Lets see if it still blocks the bots and helps everyone post more easily.

[MPC001]

[Denny]

I assume everything is well with the forum now? Any issues antus?