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.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

MUCH better.

 

[HIFI]

All seems snappy here

 

[harshness]

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

It actually went the other way. When the Brits handed over Hong Kong to China, many Hong Kong business leaders moved to British Columbia.

 

[Willh699]

for some reason, i can't access the site through my home internet but i can access it on phone using the internet my Metro by T-Mobile gets from the cell tower. my home internet is from 360 Broadband (was 903 Broadband based out of Leonard, Texas but it merged into 360 Communications based out of Oklahoma). i wonder if i can't access due to a IP Ban.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

You should be good again now.

We were getting slammed by Honk Kong and Singapore, which I blocked their countries.

In doing that I noticed that our security rules were out of date. Looks like I was missing a digit from the API which should automatically updated them. So I put in the correct API key and they updated... but they locked down things a little too much.

So I just dialed some things back just a hair to prevent good folks from getting locked out as well.

Sorry about that.

 

[navychop]

Sorry about that.

And we like it like that!