Forum Access Issues – Explanation & Fix Update

[Lee Roberts]

You lost me on the first sentence but it's great to know you seem to be on top of it! Hope it stays that way - appreciate your efforts to keep it running.

Hey @Muzzer,

Haha, yeah sorry mate I did go a bit full nerd on that first sentence didn’t I Appreciate you sticking with it though, and cheers for the kind words.

I've got a much better handle on it now, so fingers crossed that’s the last of the connection errors for a while. Plenty more improvements to come and underway too, slow and steady, but we're moving!

Well done, Lee. I look after another model engineering-related web site and regularly get updates on how many of these nuisance probing connections are getting blocked. I can't imagine how much internet traffic is just this "noise' as it must be happening on just about every web site on the internet.

Hey @Neale,

Cheers mate I really appreciate it, yea you’re spot on, the sheer volume of garbage traffic is mind blowing at times isn’t it...

It’s reassuring to hear you’re seeing similar patterns too, makes you realise it’s not just “us” being unlucky. I’ve got some longer term ideas to harden things up further (especially once we’re on the new platform), but this should hopefully keep the gremlins out for now...

Always good to hear from someone who knows the pain, thanks again!