Recent content by smallwheels

I had assumed it would be safe to upoad the upgrade files for an add on and they would have no influence on the running system as long as the update is not installed. Somewhat shocking that this is not a given. So not a good idea to upload the files for an update in preparation but to delay the...

Yes, as I said: After actually intalling the update it worked fine again.

Brilliant article. Best sentence: I guess many in this forum are old enough to have seen the whole journey.

@Painbaker: I had a pretty strange error with the upgrade to 1.3.0: After uploading but before installing 1.3.0 my recap statistics were broken all of a sudden.Before uploading the update they used to work fine. After installing the update the worked fine again. Had the same effect on both...

On my forum these are blocked for the most part, especially the VPNs apart from Apple's privacy relay. Apart from that logged in members do come through no matter which way they are using. I had rather preferred to have the VPNs challenged than blocked (same as you do) but the add on that I am...

True and that ist actually a good point. I'd assume it is more likely for a bigger and more well known forum to get attacked by bots than a smaller one in the first place. But once once your forum is known to the scrapers (which will happen sooner or later) you will be hit, independent from the...

I'd need many years to reach the data volume you fire out in a week. :D

That's as bad as I feared it would be then.

It is btw. worth reading the Cloudflare blog from time to time. For one to see what they found out and are up to do, but also, as there ore are often hidden gems mentioned with links to interesting resources. For anyone tinkering with blocking bots using home grown tools i.e. these two could be...

I'm not so sure: The free tier mainly offers customers increased speed and DDOS-protection, both pretty valuable features. Cloudflare on the other hand gathers huge amount of data to develop their premium products and is able to charge premium prices for them. Surely, with features becoming a...

It would be interesting to see if and how this changes, depending from the Cloudflare product (free vs. paid) one is using. According to their pricing matrix one can probably not expect too much from the free tier as it only detects and stops simple bots. Juging from the description even...

As said before: Automation is done via an entry in the crontab, so that's not an issue. For backupping there are many different ways from backup software to simple shell scrips that all work equally good. You just have to make a decision which way to go. If you have a lot of data it takes a lot...

Yes, there are quite a bunch of remarkable patterns. Also, that there seems to be an invisible network of actors cooperating. For one, it is often a group of certain ASNs that show up as source of traffic at the same time nd sometimes there seems quite an overlap between them regarding the...

There are some people on this forums that are worth ignoring. Not many, but some. ;) Nuff said: Nobody wants backups everybody wants restore. So you should definitively try to restore your backups on a test system on a regular basis. It would turn out very bad if you made up backups regularly...

On a sidenote: German IT magazine ct published an interesting background article a couple of days ago about malicious ASNs that are used as sources of malware, spam etc. and the actor networks behind them. In the example they were writing about it turned out quickly that there were some...