Site is slooooow

[Scott Greczkowski]

Just made a change that looks like it helped... But not sure until after its in place for awhile. It was set to cdnjs.cloudflare.com. I changed it to upkg.com.

I am keeping an eye on it.

 

[Foxbat]

I was going to say, it's probably third-party code libraries.

 

[navychop]

Let it run thru the weekend. Lower rates after the weekend, if it still is a bit off?

We could live with it as is.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I think I found something... we are getting wacked hard by Hong Kong.


Hong Kong is already blocked in the firewall, so I am working on changing our database to Maxmind and seeing if that helps.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Well I wrote Matt for help.

Not sure why the Firewall is not blocking Honk Kong. But 99% of the traffic that is hitting the server is from Hong Kong.

47.76.161.140 - - [15/Aug/2025:14:44:48 -0400] "GET /xen/posts/4390827/reactions HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3647.160 Safari/537.36"
47.76.199.14 - - [15/Aug/2025:14:44:48 -0400] "GET /xen/posts/4862381/reactions HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.2251.105 Safari/537.36"
47.238.95.71 - - [15/Aug/2025:14:44:48 -0400] "GET /xen/threads/2023-2024-ncaa-football-thread.404640/post-4862539 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3369.51 Safari/537.36"
47.76.99.127 - - [15/Aug/2025:14:44:48 -0400] "GET /xen/goto/post/?id=1695717 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3048.9 Safari/537.36"
162.0.232.73 - - [15/Aug/2025:14:44:48 -0400] "GET /xen/threads/directv-rumor-alert.341983/page-5 HTTP/1.1" 200 312112 "-" "-"
47.76.189.38 - - [15/Aug/2025:14:44:48 -0400] "GET /xen/threads/remote-access-frustration.217841/post-2258498 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.2426.90 Safari/537.36"
47.76.170.152 - - [15/Aug/2025:14:44:48 -0400] "GET /xen/threads/analog-cable-in-2021.395980/reply/?quote=4656176 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3707.7 Safari/537.36"
162.0.232.73 - - [15/Aug/2025:14:44:48 -0400] "GET /xen/threads/hd-locals-in-all-markets.90095/ HTTP/1.1" 200 317004 "-" "-"
47.238.95.71 - - [15/Aug/2025:14:44:48 -0400] "GET /xen/threads/getting-a-blu-ray-ht-system-need-some-help-on-a-few-things.135616/post-1366759 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.2991.134 Safari/537.36"
47.238.80.182 - - [15/Aug/2025:14:44:48 -0400] "GET /xen/threads/dish-to-start-upgrading-hd-customers-to-mpeg4.136289/post-1400317 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3068.112 Safari/537.36"
47.238.82.176 - - [15/Aug/2025:14:44:48 -0400] "GET /xen/threads/dish-hopper-coming-at-ces.275184/post-2742144 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3330.2 Safari/537.36"
47.76.208.118 - - [15/Aug/2025:14:44:48 -0400] "GET /xen/threads/mexico-signal-issues.213709/post-2228011 HTTP/1.1" 301 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.2412.101 Safari/537.36"

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Ok I think I have Honk Kong blocked now.

Let me know if you see any issues.

 

[comfortably_numb]

Back to blazing fast speeds on my end.

 

[navychop]

I didn't know there were any Canadians in Hong Kong

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I just updated some of the blocking rules on the firewall as well. Let me know if you have any issues.

 

[b4pjoe]

Seems much better now.

 

[Foxbat]

Seems much better now.

Agreed. Pretty snappy from out in the middle of Lake Michigan!

 

[charlesrshell]

Working great

 

[FTA4PA]

Good here so far!

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

What a difference...

Server loads dropped from new 4.0 down to 0.65.

Today I learned something new... which shows you can teach an old dog a new trick.