Recent content by smallwheels

If you have indeed been running your own servers on the internet since 35 years, so since 1990, before the www/http was invented: Congratiulations, you must be a veteran. But if you are such a veteran you must know, that your statement above was wrong and primitive trolling or rage bait.

Sorry: A statement like that lacks absolutely any competence about privacy, network security and about how the internet works. If this is in fact your level of knowledge you should not offer services on the internet, let alone a forum.

I swear it wasn't me... If a service that you add to improve speed and availablity of your website and you even give up the privacy of your users for it in fact stops your website from beeing reachable at all I would not call that "good stuff" but rather suboptimal...

They also say the reason for that was a "unusual spike in traffic" of a certain kind, but it was not a deliberate attack against Cloudflare. Apart from the privacy and other issues with Cloudflare (that astonishingly many forum admins that use Cloudflare seem not to be aware of) it is...

If you are using cloudflare as an endpoint/gateway protection/proxy your the encryption between the client and your site terminates at Cloudflare - else it could not work. So basically Cloudflare can see everything what your users are doing including conten plus obviously they have all the data...

I only do that when and b/c I get hinted at using cloudflare by the very same people constantly in those threads, for the most part ignoring every reasoning why someone might not want to use it and the cases where it does not shine (despite many do and consider it helpful) which is as...

That's what they do and what is their advantage - however: Cloudflare cannot find patterns that are specific to your forum as they don't know your forum well enough. With the way they work there will - by design - always be a gap between what they are able to discover with their methods and what...

As said before: Robots.txt won't help against bad bots. Putting IPs in discourage mode won't help either, as many of them switch their IPs quickly. I did a monthlong journey trying to get rid of unwanted bots - of those discovered by known bots for month there are only those left that I tolerate...

Oh really? Did you bother to read the topic of the thread you are posting to? It is called "At last! DPreview.com moving to Xenforo" - probably for a reason... Also the second posting in this thread says:

I do have a slightly different opinion here. Clearly, for DDOS protection you need something that the requests have to pass before they reach the actual forum and it better be on a different host. One may name it Netfilter, Firewall, Loadbalancer, Reverse Proxy, Gateway or whatever name one...

Looks nice but in practice I'd say barely anyone would use it, let alone profit from it. A very good example of feature lust. Most forum users are overstrained with things like question threads, voting threads or switching to discussion tabs. Some even with quoting, posting to the correct forum...

It doesn't change the presence if you mentally live in the past - it is gone. Which seems reasonable. It is like it is and some of those that liked the past but not the presence drew their consequences as they - probably rightfully - assumed the future won't be like the past either. Well, face...

They have: Stay on topic, have no problem. What they do is their choice...;)

I agree with you here, the more for the hosted version. What I'd expect from a decent actual forum software today is to deal with new developments and threats and AI-bots are one of the biggest. Sure one could argue, that this kind of stuff should be done on the network layer and not on the...

Exactly - but there are barely any legitimate reasons imaginable to let it hammer other peoples forums at scale. These are scrapers, cheaply made ones - those who are made with a little more intelligence fake their user agent. You can simply block those in your .htaccess: <IfModule...