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A nice backend for the admin is cool but the experience for the other 99.9% of it's users is so much more important. That's where Xenforo can kick ass if customized appropriately. It wins because it's easier to customize. AI chatbots rely on a steady stream of human produced text to remain...

Why should discussions about how to ward off bots not include other technologies?

consistently 2-3k guests here on fail2ban lately. the secret sauce is good banlists :) Glad you found an answer btw, that's a record amount of guests i've heard of on any site

A big problem with Discourse is that it's written in Ruby. Ruby is 4-5x slower than PHP.. so what people who program in it do, is cache the heck out of everything. It also uses substantially more RAM itself.. on top of what you are adding with in memory caches ( at a minimum, double your...

Read this today.. https://www.techspot.com/news/110432-alibaba-bytedance-moving-ai-training-offshore-bypass-china.html Alibaba and ByteDance are among the companies routing training jobs for their latest large language models to data centers in countries such as Singapore and Malaysia...

Yes, that's why i don't like it. I wish the majority case was that it didn't interrupt a legitimate user's experience often, if at all. But it doesn't seem to work that way. Thanks for prompting me to look into the source code. It seems to be rich in well updated banlists. :) They are asking...

anubis would be capable of doing this. But it takes server skills and root access to set up. I want to like Anubis, but i think it is possible to build something smarter that's also less complicated. Recently i came up with the right database to power something better, so i'll be writing a...

I would never use a cloud option. I would have built my own software if nothing like Xenforo self hosted was available. I hope the team has not ghosted us or is about to announce they got bought out by investors. 5 months of ignoring customers is pretty spooky.

that's gonna be a tough sell to the hosting company but it doesn't hurt to try.

Usually you'd have to convince the hosting company to give you the account but with no contact with the owner, that's gonna be pretty tough.

I have extensive experience managing all 3 softwares ( including modifying the software ) if you are okay working with an individual in the USA and still need someone. Hosting bill: you pay that directly Server management: you pay by the hour. No monthly fees outside of work you need.

Linux and BSD are chock full of those kinds of things. Won't be hard to find. Check what free routers that run on BSD like PFsense and OPNsense use. I run both open source routers in my office and they're frickin' great.

I get about 400mb with that test. ES usually consumes 1 more gb than my limit, strange that yours is over by 4gb. But you have a way bigger database.

Damn, i need another 1gb just today, the site started stalling again. We're up to 18gb I turned off a bunch of search options and reindexed the search but it did not help. The only thing i can think of is to turn the maximum pages that can be returned way down ( we have it jacked way up ), but...

PHP 8.5 is pretty bleeding edge and released a few days ago, usually it takes some weeks to find the new bugs and holes in a major version, i'd recommend waiting a few months to use it in production.