OneGuyFromBarlick

Looks like the main culprits were in the last few IP's I put in the Firewall rules that didn't load at the time because the site was saturated. Completing the loading looks like we are sorted for now. Why is it always the last ones you come to that does the trick? Sorry Wendy, you can never be the p...

Saying nowt then Kev.

It's continuing at 20 - 30% at the moment.

By operational I meant it was working at the time I posted as it is now. If you look at the CPU trace I put up earlier you can see why the site is up and down. The graph is basically a square wave but the highs which flood the CPU are much longer duration than the lows which allows the site to funct...

Site is operational this morning. I have checked the traces and the CPU is running at around 80% which is still too high and well above normal. We are no doubt still being hit with spam packets but I have given up trying to chase these. It's like flogging a dead horse, time consuming and very frustr...

So it was Stanley.

I was bit a bit brain muddled yesterday, with the site dropouts you had to do speed reading and replies.

The QI answer that would get the bells ringing is. It's a female spider!

I will add that it could probably give you a nasty bite.

We binged all of "Red Eye" over two days this last week. Excellent, it was,(is) on ITV and the hub.

Oh, a £400+ hair dryer from the Snake Oil Salesman! Pity folk are still duped into paying stupid prices for pseudo technology. Its a heater and a fan at the end of the day, other well established brands are available at around the £15 to £30 mark which do the same job. Stupid is as stupid does as Fo...

Yes and the questioner said that there were acts of genocide happening across the border from Rwanda into the Congo. The very reason that he is now living in the UK.

Ladder support when laddering a chimney?

Kev is very good at ferreting the options out. Trying to find out what we can get for free as a start. There are subscription or paid options available also but no pricing yet. Spam blocking is probably very good business, probably replaced to some degree anti-virus threats. Apparently a Cloud Exper...

Thanks Stanley but the logs and graphs available show us all the details so you dont need to keep a log. The interference is in regular but constant waves. Cant do anything on the admin side either when the CPU is flooded. Currently exploring what DDos support IONOS can give, there is a free option ...

We saw John and his wife the other day when out walking. Asked if he could do our troughing, he said yes but not holding our breath

Oh, didn't get round to washing the car.

This is what we are up against. The graphs should be a relatively straight line somewhere up the scale when operating normally. CPU and Ram.JPG I have isolated and added to the firewall 16,903,955 IP addresses that are causing problems, that is roughly half of what is in the logs. All these belong t...

I have just managed to get this page up to reply after 15 minutes at least delay. This included 502 bad gateway and asking for my password. In the few times I've been able to get in recently I've had to enter my password. Is this due to the main problem or have we set it in an attempt to make it ha...

Intermittent's are the worst possible faults to chase.

Trying hard checking IP's, nearly done 1500 from the log.

Testing access this morning.

Indeed, I'm fairly sure this is a routing problem rather than a spam attack although there is some light activity there. See my post in the Admin section.

Test to see if its working now!

I posted what is below on the OneGuy Facebook Chat site that Wendy put up last week. Private site so you need to be invited or ask to join. Useful for discussing stuff when there are problems. Had a couple of emails to say that the server has now been migrated to the faster infrastructure. this was ...

No, requests on a traceroute are not making it to the proxy server that feeds our site. This is looking like a network infrastructure problem.

Slight lull and the firewall let me add some more definitions. CPU currently at 7.25%

For the record the 502 errors seem to be intermittent. The is an additional problem in that the admin console used to update the firewall is not accepting updates. Could be a problem at the IONOS end but there are no messages to that effect. There are a number of Amazon Web Servers that are hitting ...