Recent content by smallwheels

Difficult queston. The most obvious thing to check would be if the sale would be affected by official sanctions against Russia anyway. Apart from that: While not all people in Russia might agree with the country's actions the idea of sanctions is to generate pressure by making life less...

Your version seems to have been released in January 2017, almost nine years ago. The world has changed quite a bit since then - maybe worth thinking about upgrading your forum to the actual version? There are a bunch of very effective add ons available against spammers signing up - i.e. the...

Oh really? Who would have guessed that... :rolleyes: The netherlands have historically been famous for very liberal hosting and freedom of speech. The have a long tradition for hosting sites, that in other countries were endangered to be shut down. It got a little stricter in recent years as...

Google has a range of different bots, Googlebot is just one of them.

No. The memory for this process was limited and the data did not fit into the memory. This should have been handled i.e. by ignoring the new data or by aborting or whatever else - but wasn't. It was just badly written code.

I read somewhere they rewrote the piece of code in question in Rust to be safe from memory leaks and created a memory leak-like issue while doing so...

Cudos to Cloudflare for transparency, a little bit of headscratching about the programming error that caused the outage. Sounds like bad crafsmanschip to me - people mentioned that it would be an absolute no-no to use "unwrap" on a server in such a way: Also it seems that there was/is a lack...

Those were barely attached to the internet but rather dialin via Modem. Personally, I would not really categorize those as "server" as well (they were indeed servers, but a completely different world from internet servers in almost every aspect). As part of the young crowd I was using things...

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...