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Found more and it looks like these bots saturated the available tcp/ip ports numerous times last night.. #bytedance bots - unlabeled 01/25/2026 - DS Deny From 45.78.192.0/18 Deny From 101.47.0.0/18 Deny from 101.47.112.0/20 Deny from 101.47.128.0/17

Just had a bot attack from bytedance that consumed all the tcp/ip ports. They have an enormous network and were just repeatedly slamming the share button or refreshing the home page. Fixed with: #bytedance bots - stealth 01/25/2026 - DS Deny From 45.78.192.0/18

On a lot of sites i manage the hosting for, i've noticed that there's someone trying do a slow_loris attack of sorts to consume the server's available TCP/IP ports. On most linux servers, this defaults to 1000 available ports, so it's easily exhausted before CPU is. Can you SSH into this...

I see this issue occasionally. Hopefully the move to tiptap fixes this.

We put work in to make sure all old links worked and tested redirects it before converting. Even image redirects work from the old forum. Did you find an instance where that is not the case? ( there are goin to be some exceptions to the above, for example, if a thread was moved or deleted in...

I'm just happy that it seems like they've got the ball rolling again and have been communicating with people lately. 😅

We moved from phpbb and the search sucks ( we ended up using google as the primary search function ) compared to phpbb but everything else is way better. It's higher quality software and it also runs faster. The process of moving a 2 decades old board wasn't too bad either. Better than...

You have a total of 3 members on your forum. I'm sure this would be quite easy for you, but that won't work on a forum of reasonable size

I also find this bad. A few years ago we made an application agnostic image recompressor and discovered this problem with recompressing images.. The trick to fix it was to pull the rotation marker out using exiftool before recompressing, then insert it back into the recompressed image. I...

Where is thumped hosted?

I did note the limitations of my test already. I'm not trying to deceive anyone, and the command lines are retained in the benchmark output so you can reproduce the results. Anything involving FPM, in either nginx or apache is slower for me in a number of applications i've benchmarked and had...

Ok. You disagree with me. So let's run some quick benchmarks and find out who is right. Ubuntu 25.04 with PHP 8.4 and Apache and Nginx both with default settings on a Core i5-14500T Dell Micro Nginx is using PHP-FPM, Apache is using mod_php Hyperthreading is turned off. I'm using the wrk tool...

A big problem is that AI text detection is very inaccurate. Even OpenAI could not figure it out. Schools have mostly failed to make it work and given up on the technology.

My proof: I've occasionally done this benchmark and seen that statement to consistently be true over the last few years. Some PHP applications don't have a drop in performance with PHP-FPM. The majority do. Nginx with php-fpm is faster than apache at serving static files. See what the...

..if you are running apache with something other than the default mod_php ( for example: using php-fpm instead ), you should expect that those individual PHP processes to lag heavily on closing tcp/ip connections.. which can mean that the default linux limitation of 1000 concurrent connections...